Toulouse is showing the rest of Europe how it can clean up its cities and go green, writes Peter Bills.

Peter Bills is captivated by a cyclist's paradise in the south of France.

Whether it's the boss or the bureaucrats, the answer's the same: mind your own business.

Head directly west of Siena's glorious main square and you're in a district of rhinos.

The release of a man suspected of several abductions of young women in Ireland has caused a frenzy of fear among locals.

Customers of fast food restaurants could be offered a free statin to mitigate the meal's damaging effects on the heart, a doctor suggests.

A 1960s-designed confluence of Tarmac, roundabouts and Brutalist architecture has won the Carbuncle Cup for Britain's ugliest new building.

Secret filming shows drivers taking advantage of speed cameras being turned off.

Living life to a tight deadline, juggling appointments and rushing from place to place may harm a woman's chances of becoming pregnant.

Jim Eagles travels a well worn path through a historic landscape and finds plenty of remnants from its fascinating past still in place.

Many countries are moving ahead with smart-grid technology, but New Zealand is lagging a little way behind.

Case study: Denmark

According to some estimates, one in five Chechen marriages begins when a girl is snatched off the street and forced into a car by her future groom.

A holiday with her daughter Sasha in Spain has landed the US' first lady in the middle of a political tempest.

Hartlepool, on England's northeast coast, has a magnificent marine heritage.