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Dancer accidentally stabbed on stage

Bring Jackal home, says party

Times paywall hurts traffic

Sinners will be fired

Toulouse: French role model paves the way

Toulouse is showing the rest of Europe how it can clean up its cities and go green, writes Peter Bills.

Toulouse, France

Peter Bills is captivated by a cyclist's paradise in the south of France.

<i>Deborah Hill Cone</i>: No thanks Nanny - whoever you are

Whether it's the boss or the bureaucrats, the answer's the same: mind your own business.

Siena: There goes the neighbourhood

Head directly west of Siena's glorious main square and you're in a district of rhinos.

London tower named Britain's ugliest new building

A 1960s-designed confluence of Tarmac, roundabouts and Brutalist architecture has won the Carbuncle Cup for Britain's ugliest new building.

Investors get bad case of the jitters

Be nice to visitors - and don't call them Poms

UK: Speeding drivers revel in Oxford's great switch-off

Secret filming shows drivers taking advantage of speed cameras being turned off.

Stress reduces likelihood of getting pregnant, study finds

Living life to a tight deadline, juggling appointments and rushing from place to place may harm a woman's chances of becoming pregnant.

'Granddad Bandit' caught by FBI

Soccer: England pip Hungary in friendly

Russians fear worst as fires reach Chernobyl fallout zone

Experts have been warning for more than a week that the fires that have blanketed much of western Russia in thick smoke could stir nuclear debris.