What is alarming investors is a fundamental macroeconomic imbalance. The latest economic statistics from Germany confirm the existence of a two-speed eurozone. The German heartland is growing impressively. It expanded by 3.6 per cent last year, the f...

Deep sense of loss Tom Lubbock's writing in The Independent has helped me more than anything else to understand art, particularly through his Friday discussions of particular paintings. As well as being a tragedy for himself and his close family,...

Harrison Ford, 68, is cosily wrapped up in a wool suit with a spiffy spearmint-coloured scarf, while his co-star, Rachel McAdams, 32, turned up in a cutaway sundress, slashed to the navel and hanging from her skinny shoulders by suspender straps, her...

In this depressing context, the outcome of the employment tribunal on the case of Miriam O'Reilly will be widely cheered. The 53-year-old former Countryfile presenter was dropped two years ago by the BBC when the programme moved to a new time-slot. T...

Australia has many assets to help it cope with such adversity: a pioneer spirit, a strong sense of national solidarity, a high level of public resilience, and all the material riches of the First World. But much of what makes for the standards of ord...

In a scene straight out of a 1970s sitcom, he decided to put a heavy picture-frame up himself, rather than pay an extortionate amount of money to some hairy-arsed cowboy (his words). Moments later not only had the picture frame fallen, but it had tak...

Yet the active ingredients of these products, as shown above, are among the most deadly substances for bees existing on the planet. Most rational people, with no axe to grind one way or another about bees or pesticides or anything else, would surely ...