African elephant numbers are likely to drop as the high rate of poaching in parts of the continent remained unchanged last year, a study reveals.

DUBLIN is the 42nd most expensive city in the world to live in, according to a worldwide survey of 214 cities.

THE SENIOR FIFA figure at the centre of a World Cup ticket scandal faces becoming the first person to be kicked off the organisation’s executive committee in its 102-year history.

When Botswana first offered free Aids treatment, health authorities in one of the world’s most infected countries braced for a rush of patients. It didn’t happen.

FRESH US bloodshed in Iraq dogged President George W Bush yesterday as he ventured into Africa’s AIDS heart of darkness, telling Botswana that Americans wept for its victims of the killer virus.