But in actual fact, they're obviously crossing the Equator as well.

The land is criss crossed with many rivers of different length and width.

Opiates flow freely across borders into Iran, Pakistan, and other Central Asian countries.

Despite current politics surrounding immigration, people constantly flow back and forth on a daily basis.

So when they cross the finish line and they've won, it doesn't matter if they've never seen anyone do it.

However, not all those crossing the Mediterranean to Greece and Italy are Syrians.

BRUSSELS Many Europeans feel like their countries are under assault, as huge numbers of migrants flow across their borders.

The continent needs to recall its past more sensitively, and be more generous to the desperate people crossing the Mediterranean.

Every year, tens of thousands of people, 90 percent of them Central American, cross the length of Mexico in hopes of reaching the United States.

European financial institutions and markets cross national borders on an unprecedented scale, but national authorities still dominate regulation.

Stories cut across all boundaries, like The Tales of Nasreddin Hodja, which were very popular throughout the Middle East, North Africa, the Balkans and Asia.

But setting the correct rate for risk free assets is difficult when capital flows easily across borders, enabling market participants to exploit discrepancies between countries rates.

As the price of gold drops worldwide, mainland Chinese Tourists travel cross the border to Hong Kong to clear local banks and jewellery shops.

The Missouri and many of its tributaries cross the Great Plains, flowing over or cutting into the Ogallala Group and older mid Cenozoic sedimentary rocks.

The region is arable, compared to the rest of Somalia which is arid and semi arid, and two largest rivers in Somalia, Jubba and Shabelle, pass through the area.

There are also plenty of economic migrants from, say, the poorer parts of the Balkans, hoping to escape poverty at home and willing to misuse the asylum system in the process.

The initiative is the latest attempt to discourage the common practice of jaywalking, in which pedestrians, drivers, cyclists, and other road users disregard traffic rules and cross the street when the lights tell them to wait.

Japan has asked its airlines to ignore China s demand for advance notification of flights, even if they are merely transiting the new zone and not heading toward Chinese territorial airspace.

Looking to buy drugs, a group of young Georgian men cross the border into Nagorno Karabakh the region between Armenia and Azerbaijan contested since the fall of the Soviet Union but end up being detained by local authorities.

Currently, when migrants brave the Mediterranean, they are fleeing from exactly the same things, from hunger, from wars, from wars that many times are products of European decisions made during the partition of the Ottoman Empire, or from the manner in which they created artificial borders.

His art is very important to understand displacement, to understand borders, how people cross borders, says Victor Espinosa, author of the book, Martín Ramírez Framing His Life and Art.

Some 800,000 refugees are expected to enter Germany this year, whereas British Prime Minister David Cameron is making a fuss about fewer than 30,000 asylum applications and warning darkly about swarms of people crossing the North Sea.