An Indian adventurer dodged terrorists in the barren desert to stake ownership to a strip of land between Sudan and Egypt that neither country has claimed. Syash Dixit, a computer coder from Indore, ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- A years-long battle over an abandoned plot of San Francisco real estate reportedly worth up to $50 million has turned violent. Neighbors call it 'No Man's Land.' It's sat vacant ...

An Indian man has declared himself the “king” of an unclaimed plot of land in North Africa. Suyash Dixit dubbed Bir Tawil — the 800-square-mile patch of disputed land between Egypt and Sudan — the ...

A man from central India named himself king of a barren piece of land along the border between Egypt and Sudan, sparking a flurry of excitement among people who would like to become citizens of the ...

NAIROBI, KENYA: The state has announced plans to nationalise thousands of acres of land owned by absentee landlords in Coast after they failed to identify themselves or prove ownership before the ...

The owners haven't paid taxes on the land in more than 60 years. Now, they're nowhere to be found. But the 14.72 acres they left behind along the border of Bedford and Botetourt counties have fooled ...

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