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.

An Italian MP has “blacked up” to deliver a staggering anti-immigration rant in the country’s parliament.

Who's taking the brunt of the Hollande affair? In a very French twist, it looks like it's the jilted first lady - who's been hospitalised since she found out.

Julie Gayet, the actress thought to be having an affair with French President Francois Hollande, is reported to be pregnant.

The cruisy life on a river ship appeals to Justine Tyerman.

A cruise along one of Europe's most famous waterways aboard the MS Beethoven takes in the sights of Hungary, Slovakia and Austria.

Mother Nature puts on an unexpected show for Graham Bright and his wife during a cruise aboard Cunard's Queen Elizabeth.

The apartment where Pippi Longstocking creator Astrid Lingren lived for more than half a century is set to be opened to the public.

The United Nations has said it will need nearly $13 billion in aid in 2014 to reach at least 52 million people in 17 countries, including the millions of Syrians who have been displaced by their civil war.

About 200,000 anti-government protesters converged on the central square of Ukraine's capital in a dramatic show of morale after nearly four weeks of daily protests.

This handsome university city is undergoing a modern makeover, as Adrian Mourby discovers.