The gems come from the Marange fields where miners were massacred by soldiers and villagers have been beaten, raped and forced to work as virtual slaves.

Jim Eagles travels a well worn path through a historic landscape and finds plenty of remnants from its fascinating past still in place.

For 4,500 years, the Great Pyramid at Giza has enthralled, fascinated and ultimately frustrated everyone who has attempted to penetrate its secrets.

From July to December the Western Cape town of Hermanus' rugged cliff-tops offer superb land-based whale watching.

Inspired by a love of Dr Dolittle and Tarzan to go to Tanzania and study chimpanzees, Jane Goodall has now clocked up 50 years of groundbreaking research into their behaviour. Robin McKie charts her extraordinary story.

Quade Cooper has lost his appeal against a two-match suspension.

It was the impalas I felt sorriest for. Poor little buggers.

A former All Black has lost another round in a legal battle with the SBS Bank over a million dollar debt on a Coromandel property development.

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has thumbed his nose at prosecutors and made his first visit to a member state of the ICC.

Catherine Masters is entertained by the residents of South Africa's Sabi Sabi Game Reserve.

Meet the animals living on the wild side of life.

All Blacks coach Graham Henry says Bakkies Botha was lucky not to get a harsher sentence.

South African lock Bakkies Botha has been suspended for nine weeks after headbutting Jimmy Cowan last night.

Kyle Siebert, who appears in camo gear on Generation Kill, is a most unlikely war hero. He doesn't think war is necessary and now works in a supermarket in Christchurch.

A tidal wave of demand for game meat could drive some of Africa's last hunter-gatherers to eradicate the very wildlife that sustains them.

A farmer in northern Egypt says his cow has given birth to a two-headed calf that he calls a 'divine miracle.'

Germany saw off Argentina with a 4-0 goal fest in South Africa this morning.