Throughout the region that was once the Ottoman empire, people make coffee pretty much the same way: using coffee beans ground into a fine powder, then boiled in a little brass pot. But ordering "Turkish" coffee today doesn't go over well in some Balkan or eastern Mediterranean countries that have some lingering anti-Turkish feelings.

With a new season of Doctor Whobeginning, BBC America hopes that showing it at the same time it's airing in the UK will solve longtime problems with U.S. viewers who just can't wait for the new episodes ... so they don't.

Drinking sweet green mint tea 鈥� lots of it 鈥� is an essential transaction while doing business in Western Sahara. But green tea consumption is a relatively recent tradition in North Africa.