A battle is raging on Rue Du Faubourg Saint-Denis, a shabby Paris street where hip bars are sprouting like mushrooms, and it's part of a wider war in the city pitching sleep-starved residents against nocturnal revellers.
Former NZ diplomat Warren Searell called Damascus home until the Arab spring made life far too dangerous. This is his story.
Away from its glamorous tourist centre, Marseille's drug war is spiralling out of control.
Sports writer Dan Coyle tells Phil Taylor about his long battle to cut through the PR myths surrounding Lance Armstrong and organised doping in cycling.
French wine and food fuel a luxurious cruise down the Rhone, worked off by ambles through scenic towns, writes Pamela Wade.
Anne D'Innocenzio discovers a love for river cruising on an eight-day trip on the Rhine, starting in Basel, Switzerland and ending in Amsterdam.
An ancient tapestry reveals a distant family connection, writes Jim Eagles.
Business tycoon Donald Trump says Kate Middleton has 'only herself to blame' for the topless photo scandal.
The cyclist shot dead in the Alps may have been the main target of the massacre, French police say, not the British al-Hilli family.
Catherine Bennett writes that as intrusive and prying as the press may be, what did Kate really expect when she took on that role?
A French magazine claims to have obtained topless photographs of the Duchess of Cambridge and it says it will publish them today.
Six centuries after her death, the image of Joan of Arc is inescapable, discovers Jim Eagles.
Abi Jackson rounds up some elevated accommodation options and finds treehouse living has come a long way.
Bruce Logan argues if the state passes a law that changes the nature of marriage then every citizen's liberty is endangered.
Can accommodation be all things to all people? Samuel Muston checks in to find out.
Discovery of bones in Florence convent believed to be those of silk merchant's wife who inspired Da Vinci