Embattled city cyclists can escape the buses, irate taxi drivers and choking smog with a cycling holiday in France's Loire valley. Les Jardins Renaissance holiday homes in the historic town of Azay le Rideau are a good base from which to explore the more

THE Thomond Park cocktail of the raucous and the polite gripped Limerick s O Connell Street during Saturday s epic European Cup final. Up to 30,000 people viewing the game on two giant screens cheered their hearts out. But that old tradition of more

Angelina Jolie reportedly viewed a two-bedroom house on her own - sparking further speculation she is set to split from lover Brad Pitt. The Oscar-winning beauty looked at the small property in Los Angeles' Laurel Canyon last week and sources claim more

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are on the verge of splitting up, it has been reported. The couple allegedly got into a heated political debate about their preferred Democrat presidential candidates - Brad supports Barack Obama, while Angelina is more

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are planning to adopt a fourth child, from Africa, according to British newspaper reports. The Daily Mail claims the "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" co-stars are hoping to adopt a baby girl from Ethiopia — the same country they more

Argentina's Eduardo Schwank, who knocked former champion and world No.1 Carlos Moya out of the French Open, has relived the moment when he could have died in a hotel blaze. The 22-year-old escaped the inferno which wrecked a players' hotel in the more

THE OAK, sycamore and elm stand tall and silent. Yet nothing is still here among the ancient trees of Pollok Park. Birds nest in the crook of gnarled branches, leaves ready themselves to unfurl. And something else is stirring. This peaceful pocket of more

Local youths watch as firemen extinguish burning vehicles in Paris last week. Mayor Claude Dilain sits on the edge of his chair in his community's wedding banquet hall. His hands are folded on the table in front of him, and his face is a tortured more

O2, the mobile operator recently bought by Telef nica, has agreed to give a refund to a customer who was charged over 300 for three days use of his mobile phone while in Austria. O2 will also replace "what might be a faulty handset", an XDA II more

AS JOHN Dunsmore's car pulled away into the bleak Edinburgh night, the newly appointed chief executive of Scottish & Newcastle knew he had to play his greatest hand yet. Just hours earlier, on Wednesday afternoon, the former head of UK equities at more