Equities on both sides of the Atlantic have started the week in the red as Greece agreed to form a new government and Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi denied reports he planned to resign.

La Fête dé Noué, or Christmas Festival, is held annually on Jersey, the largest of the Channel Islands.

Liz Light walks country lanes and forest paths in northern Italy.

Germany's biggest Catholic-owned publishing house has been rocked by disclosures that it has been selling thousands of pornographic novels.

These dehydrated dead have not been laid lovingly to rest but made to stand like the soldiers of a ghoulish army.

The 29-year-old who married Prince William in April is the queen of British fashion, according to UK style magazine Harper's Bazaar.

See who's joined the Duchess of Cambridge on the style magazine's best-dressed list for 2011.

Granada's cultural legacy will make your head spin, writes John Gardner.

It would seem that the ancient practice of yoga really does work - and it could be even better than going to the doctor.

The roads in this country's north are atrocious affairs, writes Mauricio Olmedo-Perez.

World sharemarkets dropped overnight after the Greek Prime Minister sought to silence critics by unexpectedly calling for a referendum.

Winchester Cathedral is a repository for many treasures of early British history and was saved from sinking into the surrounding marshlands by diver William Walker, whose statue stands outside amongst those of ancient bishops.

British study finds a third of girls aged between 10 and 11 are adopting drastic methods to pursue their ideal body shape.

Female members of the Royal Family are to be given equality with men in the rules of succession.

Because it's the low season the usually bustling yachties' hang-out of Hvar was transformed into a sleepy haven.

Women with feminine looks are more likely to long for lots of children, a study has found.

Shares soared in Europe overnight and are well up on Wall St after European leaders agreed on a Greek debt deal.