Thousands of Britons who have bought homes in the Costas face losing their investments as Spain's real estate and construction industry goes into meltdown.
France's bid to have its cuisine enshrined as a Unesco world cultural treasure appears heading for the chop after a top official of the United Nations body all but wrote it off.
Airlines across Europe are flying planes with known defects because pilots routinely fail to report faults when they find them, an investigation has revealed.
Alistair Darling insisted today that "no decision" had been taken over the Government's much-vaunted fiscal rules, despite speculation that they will be loosened to allow more borrowing.
A driver died when his car was hit by a stolen vehicle which flipped over a motorway central reservation as traffic officers tried to stop it, police said today.
Two sailors were amazed when they woke to find a dead dolphin in the garden of their Dorset home - especially as they live on a steep hill half a mile from the sea.
As property prices across the country remain out of the reach of most prospective buyers, Britain is steadily becoming a "nation of renters", experts have claimed.
