Graham Robb has that rare gift of storytelling that compels riveted attention from readers of non-fiction as much as fiction and he understands that stories may spring emotionally from places but inevitably embrace the lives of people.

Although this year's harvest is bountiful and prices are buoyant, a long-term threat hangs over the future of the UK's mistletoe.

The Stockholm suicide bombing has shattered the open-minded Scandinavian country of Sweden.

New technology is lighting up cities and saving energy.

Located at the north-west corner of mainland Wales, Anglesey is commonly treated as a thoroughfare by people heading to the busy port of Holyhead.

Ireland's 'gourmet grande dame', Darina Allen, fills in the cooking gaps that may have passed us by.

Advice on exploring Vanuatu and attending cooking school in Tuscany or Umbria.

The 2010 Nobel laureates in literature, economics, physics and chemistry received their prizes in Stockholm last night.

In winter, Venice's crowds melt away as the December mists confer the canals with an exquisite extra dimension.

Where would the world of childbirth be without those uninhibited European women who feature so prominently in birthing videos?

The mother of WikiLeaks creator Julian Assange says she is worried he will not get a fair trial following his arrest in London.

With the Australian cricket team hitting a new low, is spin king Shane Warne about to come out of retirement and return to test cricket?

A speeding driver has been ticketed by the same policeman on both sides of the world.

France's incendiary political and society soap opera came to a shuddering halt after three years yesterday.

An off-duty policeman rescued a man who fell on to Madrid's underground Metro tracks seconds before a train came through.

Continental Airlines says it's a farce that a French court has put the blame on them for the 2000 Concorde crash.

The Belgian Finance Minister has hinted that the €750 billion ($1.3 trillion) EU bailout fund could be increased, in a further sign of the confusion and discord over the best way to tackle the Eurozone debt crisis.

This bizarre Finnish comedy horror doesn't live up to the appealing central concept, but has more than enough points of difference to warrant interest.

Noomi Rapace is finished with her role as prickly computer hacker Lisbeth Salander in the Millennium film trilogy - and she's caustic about plans for a remake. By Helen Barlow.