Car sharing is fun and much cheaper than European rail, writes Eva Buzo.

A priest shocked a couple and their wedding guests in Ireland when he gave a powerful surprise rendition of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah, complete with re-worked lyrics.

Sweeping gains by Hungary's neo-Nazi Jobbik party provoked concern across Europe yesterday after the anti-Semitic organisation won one in five votes in a general election.

An 89-year-old woman killed herself at an assisted suicide clinic because she had become fed up with the modern world of emails, TVs, and supermarket-ready meals.

Memories come flooding back when Susan Buckland revisits a city of grace and grandeur.

The birth rate in Denmark is at a 27-year low. This advert from Danish Travel agency Spies wants the Danish People to solve their population crisis... in the old fashioned way. And it's also a competition for the locals to win. Courtesy Spies Rejser

The combined turnover of Italy's Mafia groups has now overtaken that of the European Union's budget as the mob spreads its tendrils overseas, a senior government adviser has warned.

A High Court judge has launched an extraordinary attack on out of control foreign divorce cases being fought in England by wealthy couples who are squeezing out needy litigants.

In the south of Ireland, the sport of hurling is the focus of a community's sense of itself, writes Peter Calder.

Paris drastically reduced its smog problem by banning half of all private cars and motor-bikes and almost all trucks on Monday.

Peter de Graaf enjoys a brew in the Czech Republic.

European humans have become "whiter" in the past 5,000 years, undergoing a distinct change in their DNA due to natural selection, according to scientists.

Live like the royals did - if only for a night. Lynn O'Rourke Hayes scopes out cool castles.

A century after the Welsh poet's birth, Kevin Pilley wonders what Dylan Thomas would make of his old boozer.

The impact of tragedy is made real to Rosemarie North at Geneva's Red Cross museum.

Catherine Masters enjoys a kaleidoscope of European sights from her floating hotel.

Graham Reid meets a New Zealander who is living the dream in Spain.

Graham Reid feels the impact of grand gestures at Ireland's infamous Jealous Wall.

Megan Singleton reveals her spoon skills in a quest to find five things to do in Dublin.