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Vienna has best living standard in the world, survey finds
Wednesday 30 November 2011
Vienna has the best living standard in the world - and Baghdad the worst, according to an annual survey.
Thomas Struth: Life through an epic lens
Monday 11 July 2011
Thomas Struth's photographs were making waves long before his recent portrait of the Queen. A major retrospective shows why, says Laura McLean-Ferris
Boxing: How the Klitschkos came to rule German fight game
Wednesday 29 June 2011
Ukrainian brothers are box-office gold in unique world of boxing in their adopted nation, so Wladimir's fight against David Haye on Saturday will set new records.
EC study backs air passengers rise
Monday 30 May 2011
Europe's busiest airports could carry 28 million more passengers every year without further expansion or extra runways, a report claimed today.
Nul Points? Not this time, as Eurovision goes west
Saturday 14 May 2011
Britain has Blue. Ireland has Jedward. Are the long years of Eastern bloc domination over?
48 hours: Düsseldorf
Saturday 07 May 2011
The Eurovision Song Contest meets fine art and sophistication in this attractive and surprising city on the Rhine
Three 'al-Qa'ida members' arrested
Saturday 30 April 2011
Three suspected members of al-Qa'ida have been arrested in Germany.
Upbeat airlines announce 128 new summer routes
Saturday 26 March 2011
Flying in the face of economic pressures and rising oil prices, airlines from the British Isles are launching an unprecedented 128 new routes this summer – and incurring the wrath of the environmental lobby.
Inge Laird: Poet who was a guiding light of New Departures publications and the Poetry Olympics
Wednesday 09 February 2011
Inge Laird was a rara avis among artists and writers in the near ego-less purity of her aspirations and achievements. More piano and less ostentatious – but no less coherent – than Keats, Dylan Thomas or Philip Larkin, she celebrated even her own life's transience: "what little I have/drifts quietly towards/the open window".
Blue to represent UK at Eurovision
Monday 31 January 2011
Nineties boy band Blue will represent the UK at this year's Eurovision Song Contest in Germany, it was announced yesterday.
Nam June Paik, Tate and FACT, Liverpool
Sunday 19 December 2010
Two shows spell out the brilliance of a pioneer who saw that cleverness was not enough
Tips and deals of the week: 31/10/2010
Sunday 31 October 2010
Christmas markets
Take a festive break at one of Europe's Christmas markets. Dertour has a range of packages to destinations such as Cologne, Düsseldorf, Vienna and Prague from £122 per person including two nights' B&B accommodation and flights from Gatwick.
Go to dertour.co.uk
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