Women’s rights groups protest as theme park based on Mattel’s legendary toy greets scores of little girls

Several patients died in tests made possible by massive payoffs to Communist regime

Kierkegaard's work encompasses, philosophy, psychology, literary criticism, fiction and theology

Floyd Mayweather has been a professional boxer since 1996 but is not expected to finally walk away from the sport until 2016, when his latest contract expires.

Robin van Helsum duped police and social workers into believing that he was an abandoned child

Premier Enrico Letta said his coalition will ease up on austerity in order to drag the pivotal eurozone economy out of its downward spiral of recession and job losses. In his first speech to parliament as Prime Minister on Monday, Mr Letta said: “Italy is dying from austerity alone. Growth policies cannot wait.”

From hip Berlin hostels to luxury luggage and Wallace & Gromit's Thrill-o-Matic ride

Mail was suspected of containing explosives

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Five writers who lived through the London Blitz accounted it as critical in their creative lives as well as epochal in the nation's history. The novelist Elizabeth Bowen was an ARP (Air Raid Protection) warden; so, by nights, was Graham Greene, to whom Lara Feigel owes her title. Rose Macaulay was an ambulance driver. Henry Yorke (better-known as novelist Henry Green) was an auxiliary fireman. All were deeply affected by the suffering and death they encountered. The odd one out is Austrian Hilda Spiel, surviving bitterly in dull Wimbledon.

In a leaden park-and-bark reading of a Verdian tale of love and loss, the set has more dramatic range than the principals