It's not in the news, but I think it's phail worthy.

[Cymbal Monkey]

So, I'm in an AP world history class, so logic would discern that the teacher knows what's going on. Yesterday, we had our first test, and in this test, a posable answer was:
The sahara desert
Now, for those of you who don't know, sahara means desert, so the translation is:
Desert desert
Now, this is in AP world, this kind of thing shouldn't happen in an AP class.

Wow.... now that I type that up, it seems kinda lame, oh well.

[JesterJ.]

The Sahara Desert

[Lavos]

wat

[Unclever title]

Now, for those of you who don't know, sahara means desert, so the translation is:
Desert desert

Man that's one heck of a desert.

[AlexanderDitto]

A common mistake. Science magazine is guilty of a similar snafu.

It's a bit like "PIN Number," "ISBN number", and ATM Machine," examples of RAS Syndrome, where Acronyms have fallen into such common usage that they have been abstracted away from their actual meaning and are instead used as if they are nouns. The same occurs when the word in question is in a foreign language.

See also The Rio Grande Wild & Scenic River (from the Spanish), Reservoir Lake, Montana (from the French), etc etc.

If you really want your brain to explode, try the commonly used "Please RSVP," which is an example of BOTH at once. ("RSVP" being short for Répondez s'il vous plaît, ie "Please Respond").