Markets fell overnight on both sides of the Atlantic as Italy's borrowing costs soared, intensifying concern that efforts to contain the European Union's debt crisis aren't working.

Those who fear Belgium may be beyond their budget will be pleasantly surprised to discover how affordable it can be.

Anita Harvey discovers a different side to Europe as a welcoming Albania emerges from its drab, oppressive past.

Many fear a Greek default could take the euro down with it, so there have been frantic EU attempts to cobble together some financial aid package that could keep Greece solvent.

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.

Plans have been unveiled for a four-runway airport on a sparse strip of land on the Isle of Grain in Kent.

Stocks on Wall St and in Europe rose after an unexpected interest rate cut by the European Central Bank and the vote backdown from the Greek PM.

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.

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.

Jim Eagles visits a piece of British history and finds out how its unlikely saviour spent five years rescuing it from ruin in a swamp.

British study finds a summer or autumn birth is a key determinant of a child's wellbeing.

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.