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 Finland celebrates 100 yearsHELSINKI -- A children's event at the National Opera kicked off a year of festivities in Finland to celebrate 100 years of independence from Russia.
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 Southern Italy's Matera will rock your world
[Photos]There aren't that many secret corners left around Europe, but veering off the beaten path can still be surprisingly easy in southern Italy.
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 Vienna Schoenbrunn Palace offers flat at princely price
[Photos]Vienna's opulent Schoenbrunn Palace, the former summer residence of the imperial Habsburg family, will open its doors to tourists looking to spend the night like Emperor Franz Josef and Empress Sisi.
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 Liam Neeson new tourism spokesman for Northern Ireland
[Photos]Liam Neeson has landed a new role as a travel spokesman after signing up to help promote his native Northern Ireland as a holiday hotspot.
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 Steve McQueen puts art on exhibit in Netherlands
[Photos]Two pieces of artwork by Oscar-winning British director Steve McQueen are to be put on display at a museum in the Netherlands.
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 Pompeii needs daily maintenance, not restoration, expert saysDay-to-day maintenance in Pompeii is being ignored, causing it to crumble faster than it should, one expert says.
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 Weaving a good yarn in Avoca, Ireland
[Photos]Avoca's wonderful woollen wares can be purchased across Ireland and are shipped all over the world.
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 Popular David Bowie exhibit to open in Berlin
[Photos]David Bowie's hugely successful retrospective exhibition is following in the legendary musician's footsteps by moving to Berlin, Germany.
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 Discovering Wicklow, Ireland's movie capital
[Photos]Carmel Tutty remembers the day Meryl Streep came to Hollywood.
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 Dutch day trips from AmsterdamIn a country as tiny as the Netherlands, day-tripping is easy to do. Within a half-hour of leaving Amsterdam's main train station, you can be deep in the Dutch countryside.
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 Guy Ritchie sells London pub
[Photos]Director Guy Ritchie has sold his London pub, according to a U.K. report.
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 Sistine Chapel the historic setting of papal conclave
[Photos]Cardinals voting to elect a new pope this week will take inspiration from some of the world's greatest and most famous works of art in the 500-year-old Sistine Chapel.
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 Castel Gandolfo: The papal summer retreat
[Photos]On Feb. 28, Pope Benedict XVI will take a helicopter to the papal summer retreat at Castel Gandolfo, south of Rome, where he will stay for around two months.
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 Tennis star Andy Murray hopes new hotel will be a smash
[Photos]Andy Murray will be keen to prove his business nous and hospitality skills are as good as his tennis after he purchased a luxury hotel in his Scottish hometown of Dunblane.
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 Climb to new heights at Salisbury Cathedral
[Photos]Climbing 332 steps up England's highest church spire to stand on a narrow balcony 69 metres up? You couldn't stop me from doing it.
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 Little England for a big vacation
[Photos]Poet and painter William Blake once described England as a "green and pleasant land" -- and the description stuck.
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 Vienna set to party at historic Opera Ball
[Photos]Attending this year's Vienna Opera Ball will be a dream come true for Oscar-winning U.S. actress Mira Sorvino, she said as the Austrian capital put the finishing touches on its most glittering social event.
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 A first-timer's Mediterranean cruiseSailing away from our port of embarkation, I join my fellow cruisers on deck to wave goodbye to Barcelona.
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 Kate Middleton's wedding hotel wins royal warrant
[Photos]Britain's Queen Elizabeth has awarded a royal warrant to the family-owned London hotel which captured the attention of nearly two billion people around the world when Kate Middleton stepped from its doors on her way to marry Prince William.
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 Bunking with the locals when travelling EuropeThese days, when I travel to Europe, I usually sleep in hotel rooms or bed-and-breakfasts.
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 Brussels the would-be capital of EuropeJust as the EU has transformed Europe, it has also transformed Belgium's capital.
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 Snow forces Heathrow and Paris airports to drop flightsLondon's Heathrow Airport cancelled a fifth of flights and airlines scrapped 40% of flights to Paris's main airports as snow continued to blanket parts of Europe, with more forecast.
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Queen's English brilliant, yet baffling On your first trip to Britain, you'll find plenty of linguistic surprises.
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 David Bowie back in London, England exhibitionAfter a period of semi-retirement, David Bowie is back in a big way.
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 Restorers discover colourful frescoes in Rome, Italy's Colosseum
[Photos]Italian restorers cleaning the Colosseum have discovered remains of frescoes indicating the interior of one of the world's most famous monuments may have been colorfully painted in Roman times.
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