What does food say about the nation that prepares it? This is the starting point for research by Óscar Cabral, whose article in Frontiers in Political Science examines the menus of 457 state dinners presented by P...

It's an Onion story that's become reality--unlike Seborga and Westarctica. These countries do not exist.The Guardian reports that police in northern India arrested a man who is accused of running a fake embassy from imag...

Michelle Frankl, an American and a chemistry professor at Bryn Mawr, instigated a furor in Britain with the publication of her book Steeped: The Chemistry of Tea. In it, she cast aside centuries of wisdom from the foggy...

(Image: Nippon Sunrise)Today, I discovered a great blog: Grand Blog Tarkin. It’s named after Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin from Star Wars. The authors of this blog are scholars in international relations, military hist...

Black metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music that, to an extent, originated in Norway. It's gaining increasing popularity across the world and is an emerging symbol of Norwegian culture. So to ensure that Norway's offi...

Parents, be careful what you name your children. A case in point is Pakistan's ambassador to Saudi Arabia, whose name is, shall we say, boastful of his manhood. The Saudi government found the gentleman's name unaccepta...

The United Nations is in session, with leaders and representatives from all over the world meeting to exchange ideas. Just how can they do that, when they speak so many different languages? The United Nations hires abou...