A selection of the week's best photos from across the African continent and beyond: ...

A selection of the week's best photos from across the African continent and beyond.

A selection of the week's best photos from across the African continent and beyond: A woman walks past a mural of a huge hedgehog by artist Dekor One on Thursday in Johannesburg, South Africa.

A selection of the week's best photos from across the African ... Christian Velcich / AFP The Chinese community in South Africa, the largest on the continent, ushers in the Lunar New Year with ...

This collection of Funky Facts from Go Jetters focuses on Africa, a vast continent spanning the Equator and containing more than fifty countries and many different climate zones and landscapes.

In the geologic history of Earth, shifting plate tectonics are commonplace, and Africa's impending rift is but another chapter in that story. The Earth's continents are far from constant.