"It is exciting that people are starting to model these ... The team found that modern humans in Africa may descend from two or more genetically distinct streams that divided but whose individuals ...

The paper relies on modeling using the genomes of 290 living people from southern, eastern and western Africa. The findings suggest that modern humans descended from at least two groups of ancient ...

Around 50,000 years ago, a new X chromosome appears to have been introduced into modern humans that ... today, most people of less-recent African ancestry have inherited those regions.

"To have a Black pope would revive the Christian faith in Africa and change people's views of Africa, by showing that an African can hold this office," said Charles Yapi, a Catholic priest in ...

Gelasius is also responsible for a popular celebration which is still marked every year - establishing St Valentine's Day on ...

As the Catholic Church gets ready to choose a new leader, many are hopeful that the next pope could become the first African Pope in modern times.

Africans are hoping one of their own could become the first Black pope in modern history and build ... revive the Christian faith in Africa and change people’s views of Africa, by showing ...