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David Leggat visits London to check out one of the world's most famous sporting venues.
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Monaco's Prince Albert II to wed South African Olympian
Prince Albert II of Monaco is finally putting decades of bachelorhood and media scandal behind him to marry his long-term girlfriend.
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French women don't coddle
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Milan Fashion Week: Labels celebrate 100 years of style
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Wales: Writer's block
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Milan Fashion Week: Armani, Ferre ... and the football
Witnessing the All Whites' draw in a bar filled with the most aggressive Italian supporters in Milan trumped any fashion show, writes Isaac Hindin Miller.
Milan Fashion Week: A lesson in juxtapositions
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Lavish royal wedding stirs up Sweden's republicans
The wedding of Crown Princess Victoria has become a focus for growing antipathy towards the monarchy in a country that emphasises equality.
Soccer: French shed no tears for defeat of 'imposteurs'
Rarely can a country have greeted its own national team's humiliation in the World Cup with such grim satisfaction.
The legacy of London's 'Mole Man'
An engineer who spent 40 years obsessively digging tunnels under his home has left council bosses to shoulder a massive bill.
Barcelona: Prankster draws a line with tourists
A mystery graffiti protester is dividing Barcelona's old quarter streets into separate lanes for the tourists and the "normal" Barcelonans.
The winemaking expert with a sparkle in his eye
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Closure for 'Bloody Sunday' - 38 years later
Lord Saville's 12-year inquiry into 'Bloody Sunday' delivered the vindication that the people of Derry had been denied.
France: Going with the flow
Geoff Cumming cruises the waterways of France and has a cliched but perfect experience.
Surviving Siberia's 'Road of Bones'
Despite warnings of bandits, corrupt police and endless forests, the 51st Traverse team make good progress through Russia.
Lost photographs reveal author's final hours
Images of the writer and aviation pioneer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - probably taken just before his death - have surfaced in France.
Soccer: We can go further, says ecstatic Nelsen
Captain fantastic Ryan Nelsen says the All Whites have proved the doubters wrong, and the side has everything to play for.
Is this the start of a backlash against circumcision?
The Royal Dutch Medical Association has adopted the view that the circumcision of underage boys violates their human rights.
Slovenia: Lovely, lonely, forgotten treasure
Beautiful, historic Slovenia is coming into its own, writes Andrea Jutson.