An asteroid exploded over Sudan's Nubian Desert last year with the force of a small atom bomb and sent a Mountain View astronomer racing into the rock-strewn sandy wilderness to recover tiny fragments ...

1. Since its secession from Serbia in 2006, which Balkan country has been developing its tourism and travel industry? 2. The Oriental Pearl Tower and the Longhua Pagoda are tourist attractions in what ...

'WITHIN three days, we should reach Sudan and start our journey across the Nubian Desert," wrote Rebecca Sumner in the diary of her epic bike ride from London to Cape Town. Rebecca and her three ...

Scientists from all over the world are taking a second, more expansive, look at the car-sized asteroid that exploded over Sudan's Nubian Desert in 2008, with major implications for the meteorite's ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... 1. The Forbidden City, an imperial palace complex built during the Ming Dynasty, is on which continent? 2. The Cape Verde Islands are in the Atlantic Ocean ...

The desiccated skin and hair of mummies from the Nubian Desert reveal what ordinary Nubians ate a millennium or two ago. The Nubians were kings once: they built pyramids and temples, carved delicate ...

Last October, astronomers found the first asteroid on a certain collision course with Earth, observing the 4-metre-long rock as it hurtled towards the planet and then exploded in the sky some 37 ...

From vicious proxy wars and human rights abuses to providing a haven for Osama bin Laden, the activities of the Sudanese regime, led by President Omar al-Bashir, have turned the country into a pariah ...

George Reisner gave the MFA the best collection of Nubian objects in the world. He also saddled it with a racist stain that the museum is determined to undo. In the early 20th century, the Harvard ...

The eight-strong family of Nubian Ibexes - whose light brown fur makes them incredibly difficult to spot on the sandy-coloured crag - were spotted by an eagle eyed photographer. And Nachum Weiss, 69, ...