Cocoa farmers taste chocolate for the first time and after the smiles, the math as they calculate the markup, but also a pride that their work is part of the process.

Durable, shock resistant and, most of all, growing in a ready-to-use tubular form, it's a wonder bamboo hasn't always been used to make bicycle frames.

Miles of sun-kissed beaches, breathtaking mountains and lush rainforests bathed in ethereal lights -- South Africa's varied and dramatic landscape has provided a photogenic backdrop for an increasing number of Hollywood productions in recent years.

Accra, March 6 1957. Tens of thousands of rejoicing people flood the streets of the city center. Shouts of "freedom, freedom" fill the air as men, women and children sing and dance, celebrating the birth of a new state and the beginning of a new era: an independent Ghana.

A car bomb exploded Thursday, killing at least nine people near Somalia's national intelligence headquarters in the capital Mogadishu, security spokesman Idris Aden said.

Egypt's army claims it has invented a cure for AIDS and Hepatitis C, prompting an outcry from the medical community, which blasted the declaration as a "scientific scandal."