Swiss police raided the Uefa yesterday about a contract disclosed in the Panama Papers signed by the head of the global football body Fifa.

COMMENT: The only way to seal a frontier is to kill people who try to cross it illegally. The Iron Curtain worked pretty well, for example.

Mention Arnold Schwarzenegger and almost no one will imagine glow-in-the-dark condoms.

To the Belgian beer drinker, the term "craft" beer is not the johnny-come-lately preserve of beardy hipsters quaffing the latest microbrew from jam jars.

Scenes of chaos awaited European Union staff due to start arriving on the Greek islands of Lesbos and Chios today to begin processing asylum seekers.

The investigation into last week's bombings in Belgium extended farther across Europe after Italian police arrested a new suspect.

Fausto Mottalini, 65, is out to tell the world that a human being can live with a few simple things: food, shelter and above all, uncontaminated nature.

A top European security official warned yesterday that the threat of Isis (Islamic State) attacks is greater than previous assessments.

The final resting place of England's greatest king is somewhere under the asphalt of the car park of a leisure centre in his capital, Winchester.

Erme says the locals' united stand has gone some way to alleviate the climate of fear that once existed, and the violence once demonstrated so publicly by the mob.

Hollande urged the people of Britain not to leave. "I don't want to scare you," he said, "but there will be consequences if the UK decides to leave the EU."

The European Parliament's decision to support negotiations on a free trade agreement with New Zealand has been welcomed by Trade Minister Todd McClay.

Croatia is to Game of Thrones what a Waikato hillside is to fans of The Hobbit.

There's a certain level of chaos in the small beachside writing shed where Welsh poet and writer Dylan Thomas spent a good amount of time.

Tourists packing cheap new camera drones for tours of Germany might want to leave them behind

Depending on who you ask, it's either the perfect testing site, or a terrible one.

European Council President Donald Tusk has set out a plan for keeping Britain in the European Union to a mixed reception.

Family of murdered Swedish refugee worker blame migration crisis for her death as police warn they cannot cope with rising violence.

Need a helicopter? Soon you can Uber it.

Looking back at economies impacted from major world events in 2015.

In Europe the daffodils are in bloom and ski fields are bare in the warmest December ever. John Vidal asks how worrying is the world's strange weather.

Kate Camp shares her experience of visiting the former battlefields of Ypres in Belgium.

In a castle in Scotland, Kevin Pilley quaffs mead in the search of a new coiffure.

Mancunian Steve McCabe revisits his hometown and finds a cosmopolitan city has sprung up among the dark satanic mills.

McDonald's may have unfairly exploited a pact with Luxembourg to avoid tax on hundreds of millions of euros in profits for more than half a decade.

For Berliner Anke Seemann, Germany's energy transformation is the chance to exercise her green conscience.

In one region in Italy, some are rethinking the future of tourism, writes Venetia Sherson.

Paul Rush, a roving hobbit, discovers the true meaning of the 'craic' in the west of Ireland.

Olly Grant steps into the past at Guedelon, built using strictly medieval methods.

Farrah has a nose for divine earthy truffles buried deep in the Bordeaux soil. Catherine Masters meets a talented collie.