Michael Brown has the heads-up on the best South African side-trips and booking your World Cup tickets.

Sighting a celebrity out of his natural habitat helps Michael Brown boost his safari tally.

Located in northern Zululand, Thanda Private Game Reserve is an award-winning safari destination.

Michael Brown discovers Soweto - a place dripping history as much as succulent juices from a chicken curry.

East of the Nile, Jill Worrall finds two neighbourhoods where life continues at a less frenetic pace than in the rest of the city.

Jill Worrall is bewitched by the beauty of the boy king's death mask.

The director of Madonna's Raising Malawi charity has blasted reports of a land dispute that pitted the star against impoverished villagers.

Kenyan authorities have begun a plan to restore the predator-prey balance in one of the country's premier game parks after a recent drought.

NZ has for the first time designated four international terrorist groups which are not listed by the United Nations, John Key says.

Research finds that running without any footwear could be better for your legs because it encourages the use of a different set of muscles.

Jill Worrall visits the last of Libya's remaining Ubari lakes, most of which dried up long ago.

Western food manufacturers are buying so little sustainable palm oil that the system set up to limit damage to tropical forests caused by the world's cheapest vegetable oil is in danger of collapse.

If the joyous and spirited sounds on this album are anything to go by, the 60s and early 70s would have been a golden age to be partying on the Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique.

Chimpanzees have been seen performing a "fire dance" in behaviour that could indicate an ability to understand and even control fire.

A midnight phone call reminds Jill Worrall of the clumsy wooing she encountered in the Sahara.

Homophobia is on rise in Uganda as the government seeks an Anti-Homosexuality Bill and the minister for ethics and integrity insists that it will be every citizen's duty under new laws to denounce anyone they suspect of being gay.