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.

In Cairo, Kevin Pilley gets a taste for one of the Arab world's most evocative treats.

While it may be true that the Irish like their Guinness, it's even truer they like their whiskey as well.

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.

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.

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.

When it comes to Christmas shopping, few countries can hold a candle to Germany. Its traditional Christmas markets have been creating the wow factor for more than six centuries.

Jennifer Lopez has hit back at reports suggesting that she got a hotel maid fired for asking her for an autograph.