The founder of WikiLeaks has issued a plea from jail for his supporters to keep fighting, accusing Visa, Mastercard and Paypal of being instruments of US foreign policy.

A new tour takes in the grand settings of Prince William and Kate Middleton's courtship.

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.

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.

New technology is lighting up cities and saving energy.

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

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?

Mohamed Taranissi, the so-called 'bad boy of the fertility world' is still Britain's most successful IVF specialist.

Julian Assange thought his trip to Sweden would help him find a safe home with some of the toughest source protection in the world - but it could prove his undoing.

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.