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Bar/fly: Belgian beer in Brussels

To the Belgian beer drinker, the term "craft" beer is not the johnny-come-lately preserve of beardy hipsters quaffing the latest microbrew from jam jars.

Tensions rise on islands as aid workers quit camps

Scenes of chaos awaited European Union staff due to start arriving on the Greek islands of Lesbos and Chios today to begin processing asylum seekers.

Hunt for terror suspects extends across Europe

The investigation into last week's bombings in Belgium extended farther across Europe after Italian police arrested a new suspect.

Ghost town home to just one

Fausto Mottalini, 65, is out to tell the world that a human being can live with a few simple things: food, shelter and above all, uncontaminated nature.

Europe on alert over Isis aggression

A top European security official warned yesterday that the threat of Isis (Islamic State) attacks is greater than previous assessments.

Winchester: When the English rose

The final resting place of England's greatest king is somewhere under the asphalt of the car park of a leisure centre in his capital, Winchester.

Brussels: From busy hubs to scenes of terror

Survivors tell of chaos and confusion after attacks on the 'Washington of Europe'.

Brussels: Vulnerability in heart of extremism

Last week counterterrorism officials and experts gathered in Brussels for a conference on a threat quietly gathering in the city around them.

Sicily: Offer you can't refuse

Erme says the locals' united stand has gone some way to alleviate the climate of fear that once existed, and the violence once demonstrated so publicly by the mob.

Refugees break into port, board UK ferry

There are reports police are using water cannons on board the ship in an attempt to get the refugess to leave.

Jewellery seized from refugee families

Germany has begun confiscating money and jewellery from refugees to pay for the cost of their stay, in a practice the UN says contributes to xenophobia.

Soon you can use Uber to hail a helicopter

Need a helicopter? Soon you can Uber it.

Taking Stock

Looking back at economies impacted from major world events in 2015.

Feeling the heat

In Europe the daffodils are in bloom and ski fields are bare in the warmest December ever. John Vidal asks how worrying is the world's strange weather.

Belgium: From the ends of the Earth

Kate Camp shares her experience of visiting the former battlefields of Ypres in Belgium.

Bar/fly: Moniack Castle, Inverness

In a castle in Scotland, Kevin Pilley quaffs mead in the search of a new coiffure.

Manchester: Industrial revelation

Mancunian Steve McCabe revisits his hometown and finds a cosmopolitan city has sprung up among the dark satanic mills.

Does McDonald's deserve an EU tax break?

McDonald's may have unfairly exploited a pact with Luxembourg to avoid tax on hundreds of millions of euros in profits for more than half a decade.