Bev Wood experiences the Italian capacity for both wild frenzy and languid indolence.

A repeat of last season's Heineken Cup final match-up is still on the cards after the weekend's European Champions Cup quarter-finals - and New Zealanders are in the thick of it.

Critics say German Chancellor Angela Merkel's unwillingness to spend is holding back the euro-area economy.

Justine Tyerman suspects there is a secret ingredient in Swiss chocolate which anaesthetises the conscience ...

Budapest is one of the most elegant and charming of European capitals, and certainly one of the cheapest.

A bar atop a hill in Sicily's Taormina has plenty to seduce eyes, ears and palate, finds Kevin Pilley.

Two entrepreneurial Austrian friends have started up a walking tour with a twist.

Luxembourg's status as a fortress of wealth in the heart of Europe is in peril.

Taking to the mighty Danube River in luxury and style and a bed so comfortable that the memory of it brings a tear to your eye is a marvellous way to travel, writes Sophie Barclay.

As a way to observe the wilds of Scotland, it's hard to beat the magic of rail travel, writes Anthony Lambert.

Sharon Stephenson discovers American air stewardesses know a good thing when they flock to the master of martinis.

Despite its dark past, this visitor-friendly city in former East Germany takes its history very seriously, as Mathew Dearnaley finds out.

An Emirates-commissioned study of the airline's contribution to Europe finds it has contributed 6.8 billion ($10 billion) of the EU's gross domestic product and spends 175 million on sponsorships....

The final countdown is under way for the European Central Bank's programme of government bond purchases, which has already fuelled a debt market rally that sent yields across the euro region to....

Erik Heinrich is in ecstasy sipping an award-winning lager while steeping in a beer bath.

The top speakers at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona are two Americans who symbolise pressing threats for Europe's carriers.

Researchers say gerbils, not rats, should be blamed for wiping out millions during the Black Plague.

Fancy treating your love to a five-star stay but not sure how to play the part of the fabulously wealthy? Anthony Peregrine explains how to act like you belong.

No central banker today will raise interest rates without looking carefully at Sweden's example.

Och, witch room? Clash of the tartans and a wee dram later, Kevin Pilley is still deciding.

Isis has threatened to flood Europe with half a million migrants from Libya in a 'psychological' attack against the West.

Turkey's largest city is a place of grandeur and contradiction, writes Nicola Lamb.

Italy has only grown 4 per cent - in total - since the euro was created 16 years ago.

It seems history is repeating itself as Greece again finds itself in the headlines, asking Germany to re-think the terms of the bailout package or risk Greece leaving the European union.

It's 1940, Britain is at war and code-breaker Alan Turing is hard at work. Danica Kirka time travels at Bletchley Park.

The 94-year-old Wellington veteran received the honour at French Ambassador Laurent Contini's home in Thorndon tonight.

Amid coal-dusted Stalinist buildings Jim Eagles finds a pole in the North Pole pointing to a pub ...