HIDDEN deep in the African desert lies one of the strangest pieces of land on Earth — not for its beauty, wealth, or strategic value, but because no country wants it. Bir Tawil is a 2,060-square ...

Africa is the second-driest inhabited continent after Australia and as such, provides some varied deserts. Believed by many geologists to be the oldest desert in the world, the Namib in Southern ...

We're off! By the time you read this, Bloodhound will already have started the 5,500-mile journey south to its Hakskeenpan desert track in South Africa. The majority of the team will arrive in mid ...

Africa's Sahara Desert may be considered a vast expanse ... causing the North Atlantic component to intensify and alter track in summer, followed by the North Pacific in winter.

located in Northwest Africa. The route is 704 kilometres (437 miles) long, with part of the track running through the Western Sahara desert. Trains consist of three to four diesel locomotives and ...

Follow the three years of battles in the North African desert, and see how Axis and Allied forces chased each other across this hostile terrain.