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Visitor numbers are soaring, despite frequent floods in the city centre

Funeral held for Venetians' 'dying city'

Two-thirds of city's natives driven out by flood of tourists who force up prices

Inside Europe

Herman Van Rompuy was virtually unknown outside of Belgium until a few weeks ago

Meet Haiku Herman, Will Europe make him, A very famous Belgian?

Saturday, 14 November 2009

The demise of Tony Blair's bid to become the EU's first president has opened the way for a politician with more interest in Japanese poetry than publicity

Mikhail Evseev said the Russian police force was beset by corruption

Police whistleblowers a YouTube hit

Saturday, 14 November 2009

The Russian police force is under fire after a series of online videos from current and former officers appeared, denouncing it as permeated with corruption and malpractice.

Claims that Ingvar Kamprad, the founder of Ikea, runs the store with an iron fist, are made in a former executive's book

Merciless Ikea memoir flat-packs a punch

Saturday, 14 November 2009

Former executive's explosive book rips the cosy façade off the Swedish furniture giant

The Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev, delivers yesterday's State of the Nation speech at the Kremlin

Medvedev promises new era for Russian democracy

Friday, 13 November 2009

President uses State of the Nation address to deliver damning verdict on country and unveil blueprint for reform

Child rape accused priest first suspended in 1964

Thursday, 12 November 2009

An elderly Irish Catholic priest facing extradition from the US over charges of child sex abuse was first suspended from service 45 years ago, it was revealed last night.

Man guilty of stabbing 'veil martyr' to death in court

Thursday, 12 November 2009

Russian-German who hated all foreigners jailed for killing muslim woman

Supporters at Hanover 96's stadium, mourning Robert Enke (right), Germany and Hanover's goalkeeper, who killed himself on Tuesday

Secret struggle with depression of goalkeeper driven to take his own life

Thursday, 12 November 2009

International footballer was worried about losing adopted child, wife reveals

The memo is said to have been drafted to spare Mr Berlusconi embarrassment

Berlusconi abandons 'casting couch'

Thursday, 12 November 2009

The era of fast-tracked careers for pretty faces in Prime Minister's Silvio Berlusconi's TV empire, which led to rumours of a casting couch, could be at an end.

Police in Germany said the early indications were that Robert Enke's death was suicide

German keeper Enke dies after being hit by express train

Wednesday, 11 November 2009

German football was in shock after it was confirmed that the national team goalkeeper Robert Enke was killed in an incident at a railway level crossing yesterday.

ET phone Rome: Vatican hosts alien life study

Wednesday, 11 November 2009

The Vatican has hosted a conference to study the possibility of alien life in the universe and its implication for the Catholic Church.

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