These days, French military pigeon number 193-529 is no longer needed to carry tiny messages during war-time communication blackouts. He carried a message from a war correspondent, and was also ...

9. 193 is the fire emergency number in Brazil and Macedonia and the medical emergency number in Ghana. 10. The emergency spiral staircase at Covent Garden underground station has 193 steps.

But the emergence of South Sudan as the world's newest country (number 193 if you count by UN membership) will not spark a new war. Instead, the conflict will be within South Sudan.

Stan Wawrinka's troubled comeback from a six-month injury lay-off suffered another setback Thursday when he was forced to quit his second-round match in Marseille against world number 193 Ilya ...