weeds

Their front yard was pathetic: basically 1,500 square feet of weeds and parched patches of Bermuda lawn.

Minister Chung said North Koreans have been spotted "sprucing up" areas near the JSA for the first time this year -- cleaning, pulling weeds, tidying flower beds and taking photos.

As women water vegetables and uproot weeds in a rural corner of north-eastern Nigeria, men in uniform stand guard nearby holding huge rifles.

Nonnative weeds have flourished in the bottom of the empty pond, which remains dry most of the time.

That led them to explore the dense weeds covering a slope between the bottom of the garden and Broughton Cricket and Rugby Club, where the body was found and later formally identified as Mr Matera.