The border between France and Belgium was recently redrawn, but not due to a political dispute. A farmer moved a stone off his land and, in doing so, inadvertently made Belgium slightly bigger.

When it comes to redrawing nations’ borders, scores of diplomats can spend years painstakingly hashing out every inch of the dividing line.For the border between France and Belgium to be redrawn ...

The farmer who moved the stone, which has been in place since the 1820 Treaty Of Kortrijk set the border’s placement following the end of the Napoleonic Wars, hasn’t provided comment on when ...

The border was changed when he moved a stone that was in his tractor's path. The move was discovered by a local history buff who noticed the border had shifted by 7.5 feet.

Apparently frustrated by a 200-year-old stone border marker, a Belgian farmer dug it out and moved it about seven feet into French territory, local officials told French news media, thus slightly ...