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Remembering why I call Italy 'home'

Carla Bastos in Italy: If the pros of your new country outweigh the cons of your old one, you win

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Sarah Nagaty: How to do Copenhagen for the weekend on a shoestring budget

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Mónica Da Silva: The best Christmas Markets in Cologne

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Don’t miss truffle season: Celebrating this incredibly rare delicacy in Italy and France

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Rail route of the month: across eastern Germany to the Polish city of SzczecinOur slow travel expert rides a train through a region of lakes and forests which deserves to be far better known.

Why the EU is so worried about China's anti-espionage lawFor the past half year, high-ranking officials of the European Union have raised the alarm about China's anti-espionage law.

Biggest Climate Talks Ever Confront Global Chaos and Record HeatMore than 70,000 people are expected in Dubai for COP28, but what can they actually get done?

Eurostar Amsterdam-to-London services to be suspended for six monthsEurostar services from the Netherlands to London will be suspended for six months from June next year. Renovation work in Amsterdam means officials will be unable to process cross-Channel passengers until 2025.

Live-Eleven Israelis and 33 Palestinians freed as truce extendedAnother 11 Israeli hostages including three-year-old twins have been freed by Hamas tonight, Israel says - bringing the total number of released hostages to more than 50.

Volkswagen says its core VW brand is ‘no longer competitive’ financially“With many of our pre-existing structures, processes and high costs, we are no longer competitive as the Volkswagen brand,” Thomas Schaefer told staff during a meeting at the German carmaker’s headquarters in Wolfsburg, Germany, according to a post on the company’s intranet site seen by Reuters.

The nature cure: how time outdoors transforms our memory, imagination and logicWithout engaging with natural environments, our brains cease to work well. As the new field of environmental neuroscience proves, exposure to nature isn’t a luxury – it’s a necessity.

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