All of their income and the food they ate came from the patch of land they were working.

WHITEHOUSE: Engage and Connect

"We know that honeybees can fly over 10km from their hive to a patch of flowers to collect food (nectar and pollen) and then fly home - a round trip of over 20km, " says Dr Raine.

BBC: Mapping the flight of the bumblebee

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is requiring new labels on a birth control patch that delivers hormones through the skin.

NPR: FDA Orders Label For Contraceptive Patch

By this week about 45, 000 distraught Albanians spent several days in an increasingly squalid patch of no-man's-land at the border without shelter, food or sanitation.

ECONOMIST: The refugees