Researchers at New Mexico State University recently discovered the world's hottest chilli pepper. Bhut Jolokia, a variety of chilli pepper originating in Assam, India, has earned Guinness World Records' recognition as the world's hottest chilli pepper by blasting past the previous champion Red Savina. picked by AutumnLotus 10 months ago

Gorgeous pictures of top california State parks picked by myrthachang 1 year ago

Yet another unbelievable example of massive Mexican cajones! The Mexican government has filed a formal grievance with the United States because New Mexico fire fighters briefly crossed the border to extinguish a fire that started in the U.S. and spread South. picked by BrownTrout 1 year ago

Very similar to the Penis/Peter Pepper. Heat level 9.

Note: Scroll down the page and you will see this unique pepper. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Watch a number of videos from a fire that broke out earlier today in the Hollywood Hills near Griffith Park and the famed Hollywood sign. picked by indierockcafe 1 year ago

A new species of duck-billed dinosaur unearthed in Mexico is helping scientists fill in gaps in the fossil record of the Age of Dinosaurs. The creature, dubbed Velafrons coahuilensis, was a massive plant-eater belonging to a larger group of duck-billed dinosaurs called hadrosaurs. picked by AutumnLotus 7 months ago

I guess when you're a firefighter in a small town you have to start your own fires. picked by civicracer18c1 2 years ago

In the shadow of the Empire State Building lies an “automotive Bermuda Triangle” - a five-block radius where vehicles mysteriously die. picked by tigertony 7 months ago

A donkey has been locked up by police in Mexico for assault and battery.

The animal, known locally as a burro, bit and kicked two men near a ranch in Chiapas state, police said. picked by AutumnLotus 3 months ago

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - With beers in hand, hundreds of former patrons Tuesday protested the closing of Mexico's oldest cantina, where Cuban President Fidel Castro, revolutionary Che Guevara and Mexican leaders all once drank. picked by bevissimo 7 months ago

A senior Palestinian official has said the Palestinians ought to unilaterally declare a state if peace talks with Israel do not succeed.

Good luck, chaps. picked by mahler87 6 months ago

Texas students will have four more words to remember when they head back to class this month and begin reciting the state's pledge of allegiance. picked by ReBoot 1 year ago

MEXICO CITY - Satellite images show illegal loggers have clear-cut large swathes of trees in the heart of a monarch butterfly reserve in Mexico, threatening the entire population with extinction, according to a leading researcher. picked by bevissimo 6 months ago

Authorities in Mexico City on Wednesday captured the second of two inmates who made a daring escape last month from a New Jersey jail, a U.S. marshal said. picked by wags273 8 months ago

Archeologists have discovered what they think are ruins of an Aztec pyramid razed by vengeful Spanish conquerors in what is now one of Mexico City's most crime-ridden districts. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

U.S. artist Spencer Tunick will fill Mexico City's Zocalo square -- the center of the ancient Aztec empire and the heart of modern Mexico -- with thousands of naked Mexicans next week for his latest mass nude photo shoot. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Swedish vodka maker Absolute launches an advertisement in Mexico depicting the US/Mexico border as it was before the Mexican-American war. picked by coldbladed 5 months ago

At least 200 terminally-ill people from Australia, Britain, New Zealand and the United States have visited Mexico since 2001 to buy a euthanasia drug, a newspaper has reported. The Mexican newspaper Reforma cited Exit International - the mercy killing organisation run by Australian euthanasia advocate Phillip Nitschke that promotes Mexico as a destination for patients seeking to end their lives. picked by AutumnLotus 3 months ago

A female Nebraska teacher ran away to Mexico with one of her students. The student ended up being an illegal immigrant. The teacher was arrested, but now the 13-year-old student is stuck in Mexico.

Ridiculous follow-up to this story:
picked by sykeo56 10 months ago

A daring parachute jumper sued the owners of the Empire State Building Tuesday because security guards prevented his leap from the New York structure in 2006. picked by AutumnLotus 8 months ago