Everyone worries that the All Blacks will have their minds on summer back home instead of the test against England this Sunday.

Discipline, or lack of, has become a prevailing theme throughout the autumn tests and of all the statistics to emerge in the past few weeks, writes Gregor Paul.

All sorts of damning praise is leaching from the British media.

Visitors come to see how desperate East Berliners dug their way to freedom.

For the past two years a gleeful band of Eurosceptics in the Anglo-US political establishment have been arguing that the euro cannot survive.

Geoff Cumming visits the centre that shows off Lisbon's turbulent history.

Among Burgundy's mosaic of modest vine plots, one may produce dense and silky wine; another just a few metres away may make something more fruity and feminine, Caroline Berdon discovers.

Perfect porcini, peccorino, pasta... Jim Eagles relishes a meal in.

Venetia Sherson explores Italy's wild heart, where strange rituals flourish and cheese-producing sheep can be sponsored.

Soak up a slower pace of living in Italy's untouched southern region.

When it comes to Christmas shopping, few countries can hold a candle to Germany. Its traditional Christmas markets have been creating the wow factor for more than six centuries.

Jennifer Lopez has hit back at reports suggesting that she got a hotel maid fired for asking her for an autograph.

In Wengen, a ski resort perched high in the centre of Switzerland, AC/DC has infiltrated.

Graham Reid visits a place of worship and wonder on windswept Salisbury Plain.

Get out the tweeds and Wellingtons and join Pamela Wade at Blenheim Palace.

The US President must be allowed to build on his Administration's achievements, writes Reverend Jesse Jackson.