The southern port of Marseilles is unlike other French cities. That becomes apparent as soon as the visitor steps from the train at Saint-Charles terminus, high above the city.

Communist East Germany allowed Western drug companies to use its medical patients as unwitting guinea pigs for tests.

Santa Claus? No grown-up believes in him any more! And yet, even the adults can be seen standing reverently when visiting Santa's office in Finland.

Megan Singleton visits a Turkish gem where Bond shines.

Julia Shallcrass explores the ancient remnants of Rome, from its dark history to the Vatican City.

Jenna Hand sees the best of Vienna on the cheap.

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.

Gliding over Turkey, Phoebe Falconer resists reaching out to the intriguing rocks sweeping by.

Jim Eagles missed out on what he wanted to hear in Montalcino, but what he saw made the trip worthwhile.

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