Three suspected migrants have died and a fourth is hospitalized after two boats capsized off Panama’s Caribbean coast.

Unidentified oil is washing up on South African beaches, closing shores and raising fears for wildlife as officials investigate the source of dense tar balls and oil barrels.

Fifty-three migrants, including two babies, are feared dead after a rubber boat carrying 55 people capsized off the coast of ...

The International Organization for Migration says two infants are among at least 53 people feared dead or missing after a boat capsized off Libya's coast.

The penguins perished by the thousands for a simple, agonizing reason: a lack of food. In two key colonies off the coast of South Africa, the vast majority of the breeding birds probably starved to ...

IrishCentral contributor John Joe McGinley on one of the most mysterious raids in Irish history, the Sack of Baltimore, when more than one hundred villagers were snatched from their beds by pirates ...

Learn how to make the signature barbari bread at The Barbary Notting Hill and then try it with a selection of dips ...

More than 12 million Africans were enslaved during the transatlantic slave trade. Over the centuries, most were taken to the Americas, while millions of others died along the way. Today, monuments to ...

Along West Africa's slave coast, a painful past is being preserved — and marketed — raising questions about memory, tourism and profit. More than 12 million Africans were enslaved during the ...