Bullring combines grandeur and gore, writes Julie Moffett.

A Swedish co-founder of file-sharing website The Pirate Bay has gone on trial, charged with hacking and stealing data from an IT services company with ties to the Swedish tax authority and other government agencies.

Julia Shallcrass discovers Topdeck bus tours provide the swiftest way to see Europe and make new friends.

What's in store for Paris's iconic Hotel de Crillon? Samuel Muston takes the long view.

Starting at the top of the London Eye, Julia Shallcrass discovers London attractions and local haunts.

Eurostar's latest service takes you straight to the heart of foodie France. Andy Lynes climbs aboard.

Three years after Ireland's €67.5 billion financial rescue by the International Monetary Fund and the European Union, signs are the Emerald Isle is on the improve.

Scientists have uncovered what, for some couples, may be an uncomfortable truth: all people of European descent are related.

This compact city-state stands aloof from its bigger neighbours. Adrian Mourby takes a tour.

Fearing that a generation of Europeans is doomed to joblessness, the European Union is quietly side-lining the doctrine of austerity and instead placing its bet on encouraging growth.

He's no star on the slopes, but Andrew Potter finds his feet in St Anton's bars.

Increasing numbers of campsite holidaymakers fly to Italy, but taking the decision to drive across mainland Europe is worth the effort.

Bucharest was founded by a shepherd, according to local legend, and was later nicknamed the Paris of the East.

There’s nothing quite as delightful as sipping high tea with your pinky out in the home of the high tea.

A holocaust survivor and one of the last remaining Jews to be saved by Oskar Schindler hopes her story can help prevent the horrors she witnessed happening again.

Ian McCrae, is the CEO and majority shareholder of Orion Health, the large Auckland health software company which has just celebrated its 20th birthday.

I spent many weekends as a child being dragged to motor shows by my car-mad dad (and extremely patient mum).

Oliver Reed once declared that he wanted to drink every pub dry before he died. In Malta, he met his match.

Tauranga lawyer Belinda Pidwell will never forget a Bosnian man tell how he and his family were lined up and shot.

I’m a big fan of whizzing around Europe by rail. Six cities in eight days I did once and it was a lot more efficient than flying.

Hearty peasant fare in a quaint Portuguese tasca thrills Geoff Cumming

Liz Light spends 24 hours in Novgorod.