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Beatle Ringo Starr publishes Octopus's Garden children's book
Wednesday 12 June 2013
Former Beatle Ringo Starr is publishing a children's book based on the band's song "Octopus's Garden".
Glencore investigated over '€120m tax-evasion'
Tuesday 11 June 2013
Glencore has confirmed that it is being investigated by Italian financial police over tax evasion allegations involving its Sardinian subsidiary, the metals producer Portovesme.
Juventus coach Antonio Conte admits: 'I can't see an Italian team winning the Champions League in the coming years'
Thursday 11 April 2013
Financial might of rivals means Italian football must pull together says Conte following defeat to Bayern Munich
Get me out of here: Cornwall, Corfu, Sardinia
Wednesday 27 February 2013
Now... St Mawes Retreats in Cornwall has four new self-catering houses available for week-long stays in March. Prices start at £549 for the Shellseekers cottage, which sleeps four, and rises to £1,800 for Moonrakers, which sleeps 12. Stmawesretreats.co.uk
Reasons to move to Wales? Well there's the healthcare, the house prices, the ...
Sunday 24 February 2013
Tom Peck weighs up the advantages of life on the other side of Offa's Dyke
Travel in 2013: Holidays for campers
Sunday 30 December 2012
The WeDubYou (020-7193 9058; wedubyou.com) fleet of customised Seventies VW camper vans (top) is set to hit the highways of south-west France in 2013.
Postcard from... Turin
Tuesday 09 October 2012
Italian stallions are finding it hard becoming – and staying – aroused because they spend too much time getting their kicks on the internet when they should be learning their bedroom skills from more mature ladies, one of Italy's leading sex experts has warned.
Here lies Garibaldi? Body of unification hero to be dug up
Saturday 28 July 2012
The descendants of Italy's unification hero Giuseppe Garibaldi have won a battle to have his remains exhumed and DNA-tested amid suspicions that the his tomb has been tampered with.
Great getaways: Sardinia, Scaninavian summer cruise, Austrian Tyrol and budget Barcelona
Sunday 03 June 2012
Wild isle
Undercurrent of change at Barcelona’s Trofeo Conde de Godo
Thursday 24 May 2012
The results sound great, two seconds and a first for Niklas Zennström’s Rán in the TP52s and three firsts for Tony Buckingham’s Soto 40 Ngoni, but there is a strong undercurrent of change at Barcelona’s Trofeo Conde de Godo in the shape of grand prix racing in the Mediterranean.
Scrum in the sun in Sardinia
Wednesday 11 April 2012
Forte Village Resort has enlisted the great and the good of English rugby to teach its younger guests this summer
Prehistoric cybermen? Sardinia's lost warriors rise from the dust
Friday 17 February 2012
An elite force of prehistoric warriors – carved from solid rock in the western Mediterranean 2700 years ago – is rising from oblivion.
Sanya rejoins Volvo fleet as race heads for Malacca Strait
Sunday 22 January 2012
The full complement of six will be on the start line Sunday in Male in the Maldives, the secret safe haven being used by the Volvo round the world race, for the re-start of the third leg to Sanya on Hainan Island in China.
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Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
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Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
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US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
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Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
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Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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