Along with Germany, France is the core of Europe. Its history is the history of Europe and Europe is inconceivable without France. Even more than Germany, its...

Over the span of countless days in which I would miss school as a result of waking up ‘’ill’’, I still recall with great fondness, those rainy afternoons, as a young child,...

        In Italy there is an annual event during which towns and villages compete for the coveted title of the Borgo Più Bello d' Italia....

        At the heart of President Barack Obama's quandary over the Islamic State militants is their haven in Syria.   The US president may continue helping...

I’ve been thinking a lot about James Foley over the last few days, in part because it’s hard to get away from debates in the international press about what his murder by ISIS terrorists...

On 15 August, Italy's interior minister Angelino Alfano said a time limit must be put on the humanitarian search-and-rescue operation that has saved some 63,000 migrants since last year. The...

Tales from Lilliput...

This year sees the centenary of the commencement of the First World War. A hundred years ago a series of events – improbable, secondary, even seemingly trivial – formed an epicentre that...

Eurostat has published worrying economic data for the second quarter of 2014. Economic growth in Q2.2014 was zilch compared to Q1.2014 and only 0.7 per cent compared to same quarter last year....

As the country, vast swathes of it judging by the social media content this week, takes to pouring buckets of ice water over their heads – with most people apparently not even knowing the stunt...