Europe
Poland marks anniversary of WWII beginning new
Political and religious leaders recall sacrifices their countrymen made in struggle against Hitler's Germany.
Inside Europe
Russians mark 5 years since Beslan school tragedy new
Tuesday, 1 September 2009
Thousands are gathering in the southern Russian town of Beslan to mourn the hundreds of people who died five years ago in Russia's worst terrorist attack.
History is a battlefield as Putin flies into Poland
Tuesday, 1 September 2009
Divisions over who was to blame for Second World War cast shadow over 70th anniversary meeting.
Will they learn to live and let live on the Lido?
Tuesday, 1 September 2009
No one in Lido di Classe can remember why transsexuals first chose to migrate to their town 20 years ago, but their nocturnal activities are starting to worry the village's increasingly elderly residents. Michael Day reports
Turkey and Armenia close to border deal
Tuesday, 1 September 2009
Armenia and Turkey were a step closer to reopening their border and calling time on nearly a century of hostility, as officials on both sides agreed to sign accords within six weeks. The landlocked neighbours have no diplomatic ties, a closed border and a history of animosity stemming from the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks during World War One.
On trial for faking madness – as part of an artwork
Monday, 31 August 2009
Student turned her experience of breakdown into a performance piece
Merkel defiant after poll loss
Monday, 31 August 2009
Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives suffered defeat in two out of three key German state elections yesterday, opening the way for a controversial coalition between Social Democrats and the reformed communist Left Party in the western Saarland region for the first time.
Healing Italian well water 'is toxic'
Monday, 31 August 2009
A well in northern Italy which attracts thousands of pilgrims hopeful of finding miraculous cures for their bodily ills has been condemned by the local health authority as toxic.
John Lichfield: Our neighbours are now a public menace
Monday, 31 August 2009
The wild boar population of France has increased five-fold in the last 20 years
The godmothers calling the shots in the Naples mafia
Sunday, 30 August 2009
With their menfolk being rounded up, the women of the Camorra crime syndicate are taking charge
Dutch court orders yacht girl, 13, into state care
Saturday, 29 August 2009
Report ordered into hazards of allowing teenager on circumnavigation
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