Take a look at this page http://traffickingculture.org/news/
If you hover over the news stories, you'll see that the whole extract of each story (title, image and description) is clickable and links through to the full story. This is nice as it give a large click target, but it also leads to unexpected behavior in that the paragraph text is a link even though it doesn't look like one.
Markup like this is relatively new since, before HTML5, block level elements like paragraphs were not allowed inside link tags.