By 1895, the Rio Grande – and the US – had moved south about 600 acres (2,4 sq. km), a disputed area known as El Chamizal.

A map of the area codes in which Ludacris claims to have Hoes.

The town of Büsingen am Hochrhein is one of two foreign enclaves enclosed within the territory of Switzerland.

“While on vacation in Dubrovnik, Croatia this summer, we ran across an old Yugoslav atlas which included this map on the entry for the US.”

An overabundance of kangaroos munching on native grasses near Canberra has left the government little choice but to kill some of the pesky marsupials.

Imagine a bus shelter that grows extra-long roots for you to sit on and leafy greens as shade.

A team at the University of Washington has created a contact lens assembled with functional circuitry and LEDs.

Recently the national bank of Ethiopia discovered that much of the gold in its possession was fake.

The UK has signed up to the Bush administration’s Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) just a few months after it was rubbished as unworkable by the US National Academy of Sciences.

A court in Sicily has ruled that an accused Mafioso can be put under house arrest because he is too fat for any Italian jail.

It first appeared in 1929 in a special issue of ‘Variétés’, a Belgian magazine, dedicated to surrealism – an art form remembered for its absurdity, but less for its political views.

Methylene blue is a water-soluble dye that can be used to assess whether a fistula is present or used as a medication.

…Prolonged exposure can result in the infamously eye-catching condition known as argyria, in which the sufferer’s skin acquires a pronounced — and permanent — blue-gray hue.