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.

Ewan McDonald cops a serve in Detective Inspector Rebus' favourite watering-hole.

A wrong turn on the motorway led Colin Nicholson to Las Teresitas, one of the best beaches in the Canary Islands.

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.

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.

Germany drives home its rich automobile history, writes Diana Plater.

Jared Savage confronts a tourist who's seemingly unaffected by the former concentration camp's sombre atmosphere.

Bare-breasted feminists hurled knickers at the archbishop of Madrid as he arrived at church in protest at his support for a tightening of Spain's abortion law.

Catherine Masters cruises the Danube, taking in central Europe's stunning cities.

Jamie Morton learns the definition of super-sizing in Munich's leafy beer gardens.

Among the ruins, Russell Maclennan-Jones imagines life in ancient Ostia.

Billionaire Tom Perkins has apologised after he sparked outrage by saying that rich Americans are being persecuted like 'Jews in Nazi Germany'.

Nigella Lawson's ex-husband Charles Saatchi has challenged a journalist to a karate cage fight, after he wrote a column critical of him - and it's being taken up.

Jamie Morton stops by the Swiss lakeside and its romantic grand hotel.

The Pope’s new Spanish Cardinal has called homosexuality a physical “defect” that can be cured, it has been reported.

Wynyard Group has signed a global partnership deal with UK-based Arquebus Solutions to deliver gun crime intelligence software for the law enforcement market.

She may be a professional rider and former Olympian, but sporty Zara Phillips has no intention of being a hands-off mother.