The biggest conference on a global health or development issue (HIV and AIDS prevention) across the world has just ended. HIV/AIDS has been a critical global challenge for decades, and even then, an event of this extent solely dedicated to it would have been unbelievable recently.

Have you ever heard of a deal between humans and free-living wild animals? A new study has found that a community in Africa forms a sweet collaboration with greater honeyguides to hunt for honey.

A global effort to save the magnificent African rhino species is underway but the species is highly endangered and is facing extinction.

Some captured images show the moment a humpback whale jumped majestically from the ocean waving to a tourist boat. Maine tour guide Steven Benjamin captured a sight, off the coast of South Africa.

A three-million-year-old child's skull discovered in South Africa has no signs of the type of soft spot that would be seen in human children with bigger brains.

The recent study projected that the Taung child skull displays the initial signs of cranial adaptation in a hominin called as Australopithecus Africanus, which lived about 2.1 to 3.3 million years ago.

The murder trial of Oscar Pistorius resumed on Monday after a month of evaluation by mental health experts to see if the athlete has anxiety disorder. It could be a possibility that an anxiety disorder might have led him to murder his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

Scientists have collected details of a tiny star that was hit by a billion ton asteroid. The star is 37,000 light-years away from the planet earth and has been hit by large chunks of rocks from space. The pulsar is dubbed as PSR J0738-4042.

A memorial service was held to honor Nelson Mandela, South Africa's first black president and Nobel Prize winner. US President Obama and other leaders from the world were present at the event that took place at FNB Stadium.