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Brussels rules cost UK £18bn a year

The cost of EU regulations on working hours and limits on noise levels is costing Britain more than £18 billion a year

Fugitive doctor found in tented Alpine hideout

Mark Weinberger, US surgeon hunted for five years by hundreds of angry patients, has been tracked down on a mountain

Obama’s climate deal unravels at last moment

The United Nations climate change conference ended in recrimination yesterday without reaching a clear deal on emissions targets

Controversial pope moves closer to sainthood

Pope Pius XII, the wartime pope accused of failing to openly condemn the Holocaust, is to be declared venerable

Travel firm Allbury goes into administration

Christmas holidaymakers suffer as package tour operator trading as Libra Holidays, Argo Holidays and JetLife hits trouble

'Lukewarm' climate change deal in Copenhagen

Criticism over 'meaningless' agreement as result of Barack Obama-brokered accord with China, India, Brazil and South Africa

Winter travel misery for Eurostar and drivers

Rail passengers stranded in Channel Tunnel and services suspended, while elsewhere snow causes disruption for travellers

Copenhagen deadlock wrapped up as a deal

President Obama insisted that the agreement was meaningful, even though it sets no targets for reducing carbon emissions

Catalan Parliament votes to ban bullfighting

Animal welfare protesters say the move in Catalonia could be the first step to a national ban of the controversial sport

Danish police accused of brutality

Protesters claim they were kept in cages, attacked by dogs and contained with pepper spray despite committing no offence

John Paul II at miraculous pace to sainthood

Pope Benedict XVI is expected to declare John Paul II ‘venerable’, putting the late pontiff on the path to canonisation

Ceausescu's ghost haunts Romania

Twenty years after the dictator's death, mixed emotions remain

Romania’s joyful, chaotic, squalid new dawn

Old hands had said that it would never happen but Victor Sebestyen was there to witness the overthrow of Nicolae Ceausescu

Chirac faces new Paris financial inquiry

France’s popular former President is to be investigated over claims that he used official City Hall funds to pay party staff

Theft of Auschwitz sign is not a petty crime

The thieves of Arbeit Macht Frei have to be found. Remove the death camp's sign and you begin to dismantle Holocaust memory

Copenhagen cuts corners on climate

Gordon Brown and other leaders prepared to stay overnight as talks were prolonged by a dispute between the US and China

Neo-Nazis suspected of raid on Auschwitz

There was outrage around the world after thieves stole the sign from the gates of the Nazis' most notorious death camp

Snail caviar is toast of French culinary world

A former kitchen builder launches a revolutionary product appealing to Gallic tastes after three years of intense research