They are the bucket-list destinations tourists are loving to death. Some of these sites have been shut down, while for others the risk lingers.

Britain could sink into a year-long recession if it votes to leave the European Union, finance minister George Osborne warned.

Gliding along the river with a cocktail in hand, as stars twinkle above me, I'm certain there is no better way to travel.

Diplomats tell us what Kiwis need to know about their homelands.

This sinister botanical wonderland is home to 100 of the world's most lethal plants...

It is not often that international solutions work so well but when it happens, it deserves a tentative cheer.

Well, for one, it's pretty magical to get to experience a white Christmas - sure, it'll be extremely cold, but Europe does Christmas exceptionally well.

Half of Western European men are descended from one Bronze Age "king" who sired a dynasty of nobles which spread throughout Europe, a study has shown.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel was asked to reminisce about her fondest moments with President Barack Obama during the seven years of his presidency.

Swiss police raided the Uefa yesterday about a contract disclosed in the Panama Papers signed by the head of the global football body Fifa.

COMMENT: The only way to seal a frontier is to kill people who try to cross it illegally. The Iron Curtain worked pretty well, for example.

Mention Arnold Schwarzenegger and almost no one will imagine glow-in-the-dark condoms.

To the Belgian beer drinker, the term "craft" beer is not the johnny-come-lately preserve of beardy hipsters quaffing the latest microbrew from jam jars.

Scenes of chaos awaited European Union staff due to start arriving on the Greek islands of Lesbos and Chios today to begin processing asylum seekers.

The investigation into last week's bombings in Belgium extended farther across Europe after Italian police arrested a new suspect.

Fausto Mottalini, 65, is out to tell the world that a human being can live with a few simple things: food, shelter and above all, uncontaminated nature.

A top European security official warned yesterday that the threat of Isis (Islamic State) attacks is greater than previous assessments.

The final resting place of England's greatest king is somewhere under the asphalt of the car park of a leisure centre in his capital, Winchester.

Erme says the locals' united stand has gone some way to alleviate the climate of fear that once existed, and the violence once demonstrated so publicly by the mob.

Hollande urged the people of Britain not to leave. "I don't want to scare you," he said, "but there will be consequences if the UK decides to leave the EU."

The European Parliament's decision to support negotiations on a free trade agreement with New Zealand has been welcomed by Trade Minister Todd McClay.

Croatia is to Game of Thrones what a Waikato hillside is to fans of The Hobbit.

There's a certain level of chaos in the small beachside writing shed where Welsh poet and writer Dylan Thomas spent a good amount of time.

Tourists packing cheap new camera drones for tours of Germany might want to leave them behind

Depending on who you ask, it's either the perfect testing site, or a terrible one.

European Council President Donald Tusk has set out a plan for keeping Britain in the European Union to a mixed reception.

Family of murdered Swedish refugee worker blame migration crisis for her death as police warn they cannot cope with rising violence.

There are reports police are using water cannons on board the ship in an attempt to get the refugess to leave.

Germany has begun confiscating money and jewellery from refugees to pay for the cost of their stay, in a practice the UN says contributes to xenophobia.

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