World markets were up overnight, as positive debt reports came out of the United States and Europe.

I visited the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain one Saturday in June.

The mother of the French woman who has accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn of attempted rape has told police she also had a "violent" sexual encounter with him.

Brooke Fraser hochster Neu-Einstieg in die Charts. That's right, the lovely Kiwi songstress "is the highest new entry in the German charts" and her third album, Flags, has sent the European world a-Twitter.

Cheryl Cole's ex-husband Ashley Cole begged a lingerie model to send him a nude photo just days before the couple reunited.

Iceland, settled by Vikings and their slaves more than a thousand years ago, is a surprisingly chic, switched-on place, writes Denis Peters.

Australia will help fund a World War I museum in Belgium that houses artefacts from a battlefield where more than 11,000 diggers died.

Ashdown Forest is one of Britain's many literary haunts, writes Robert McCrum.

France's pregnant first lady tells a newspaper: 'There are things that are better kept secret.'

Centuries old tunnels make excellent wine cellars, PK Stowers explains.

The theatre acoustics are fit for the gods at the birthplace of Apollo's son, writes Jim Eagles.

Press baron's real danger lies in his blatant influence on politicians and global economic policies, writes Bryan Gould

Not a travel book as such but just the sort of book I like taking with me when I'm travelling somewhere ... in this case to Greece.

The Dippemess tradition began in the 14th century as a market for domestic items.

The Independent's Yasmin Alibhai-Brown on the shocking realities of human trafficking.

Denim is fashion's great democratiser: a perennial favourite that doesn't look bad on anyone.

Young women across Russia have been called on to show their support for Vladimir Putin by ripping off their clothes.

Mana Waka hasn't been shown publicly since January 1990.