World soccer's ruling body FIFA has ordered an investigation into the midweek friendly between Bulgaria and Estonia, an official said yesterday.

It's all very beautiful, but if film-man Figgis wants to direct opera he should pay his dues with the touring companies

Where to go, what to do in 2011

The Baltic state of Estonia became the 17th European Union member to adopt the joint European currency, the euro early today.

Today: Enjoy a hot date in Bath. The city celebrates the start of the Year of the Museum with a Roman experience at the historic baths. Visitors will be offered hot, pepper-covered fruits, as was traditional during Roman new year festivities. The year of special events will include "Bath in 100 Objects" and the refurbishment of the Holburne Museum (visitbath.co.uk/museums). Meanwhile, guests will be waking up at the new Las Piedras Fasano hotel in Uruguay, the Fasano group's first foray outside Brazil. It is in a tranquil, rural location close to the coastal action of the swanky Punta del Este (laspiedrasfasano.com). Or head for the New Year's Day Parade in London, left, with the festivities starting at the Ritz hotel in Piccadilly at 11.45am (londonparade.co.uk).

Estonia has become the first former Soviet state to adopt the euro, entering the common currency club at midnight last night.

Estonia was gearing up today for historic New Year's festivities to celebrate the tiny country becoming the first former Soviet republic to adopt the euro.

The last time a Baltic state was put in the spotlight as European Capital of Culture, it wasn't exactly a roaring success. That's why Tallinn is determined to get it right

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Roman Polanski's The Ghost – the story of a journalist hired to write the memoirs of a British prime minister – has won the prize for best film at the European Film Awards.

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Grandmother had to be able to see the sky – even at night, when there was nothing to see. She said it was the same sky they had at home." Home is not Vladivostok, where she shares a house with her daughter and granddaughter, and is treated as senile, only speaking her native language when caught off-guard in the watches of the night. Her home is somewhere far distant in both time and space.

The wrecks of three British warships that were intended to forestall a Soviet and German takeover of the Baltic states after 1917's October revolution have been found off the coast of Estonia.

Analysing humour, it has been said, is a bit like dissecting a frog. You can do it – but the frog dies in the process. So it is probably not wise to try to explain exactly why a one-liner by Tim Vine has been named as the best joke at this year's Edinburgh Fringe.