The rain in Spain stays mainly in Galicia, finds Peter Calder.

It was interesting to hear Graham Henry say that Australia will be the All Blacks' biggest competition for the World Cup.

When a champagne house can name Marie Antoinette and Marilyn Monroe as fans, you'd think the brand couldn't get any more glamorous - then they announce a collaboration with shoe designer Christian Louboutin.

Since Eurostar launched services between London and Paris in 1994, it has cornered the largest share of the richest travel market in Europe.

The IMF expects global growth to fall next year as the emerging economies which are leading the global recovery are unable to fully compensate for weaker demand in rich countries.

Marc Jacobs has long flirted with danger and it has yet to do him much harm.

The Independent looks at a vanishing breed - the investigative journalist.

Jess Hamill added to New Zealand's medal tally overnight when she finished second in the parasport shot put.

The company will make the services available on Airbus A340-500s and A380s and Boeing's 777-300ER models.

A new book about Coco Chanel captures the spirit of the great designer. Here Viva explores how Chanel revolutionised women's fashion, and why, even 25 years after Karl Lagerfeld took over, the label remains as iconic as ever.

Prominent figures from the world of art and architecture demand action over huge, floodlit ads obscuring palaces up and down the Grand Canal.

Watch this video - filmed by a tourist - of two lions attacking their trainer in front of horrified onlookers at a circus in the Ukraine.

Stay ahead of the game with some of the key trends and moments from the latest international fashion weeks.

Report shows wealthy people are least likely to care about cleanliness or to enjoy housework.

Since it opened in 1872, Hastings Pier has hosted everyone from Victorian holidaymakers to the Rolling Stones.

French counter-terrorism investigators arrested 12 people in two separate raids this morning.

Warnings of terror attacks in Europe are not affecting bookings, say airlines.

A bomb has exploded outside a shopping centre in the Northern Irish city of Londonderry.

Wedged between the Far East and the Mediterranean, Turkey offers a wealth of culinary delights that are too often under-rated.

If anyone can be credited with the return of so-called 'real' clothes to the catwalk then it is the British-born designer, Phoebe Philo.

4G mobile phones are set to disrupt households' cable television - and possibly their neighbours' sets as well.