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Lavish royal wedding stirs up Sweden's republicans
It has been described as a true-life fairytale wedding. This afternoon in Stockholm Cathedral, Crown Princess Victoria, next in line to the Swedish throne, will marry not a fellow aristocrat but an ordinary citizen – her former personal trainer.
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The new flames of French resistance
Saturday, 19 June 2010
When the Sarkozys came to London to honour the defiance of de Gaulle, the entente was dazzlingly cordiale.
How the French do flash-mobs
Saturday, 19 June 2010
Obliged to dress in white and summoned by text message, phone call or email to a secret location 15 minutes beforehand, the participants in Paris's Big Open Air White Dinner more than earn their supper.
Kaczynski's twin closes in on his brother's old job
Saturday, 19 June 2010
He is a cat-loving, conservative bachelor who is renowned for opposing abortion, gay rights and the European Union. Yet Jaroslaw Kaczynski could emerge as Poland's new president tomorrow in an election in which he is aiming to replace his twin brother, who died in April's devastating air crash.
A very French invasion to remember the fight against Hitler
Friday, 18 June 2010
John Lichfield: President Sarkozy will bring 800 countrymen to London today to mark the 70th anniversary of the Resistance
Relaxed Cameron agrees to bank stress tests on first trip to Brussels
Friday, 18 June 2010
Andrew Grice and Vanessa Mock: EU leaders tried to calm the jittery money markets yesterday by promising to cut their countries' bulging deficits and subject their banks to urgent "stress tests" to prevent another financial crisis.
Paternity riddle will see Bobby Fischer exhumed
Friday, 18 June 2010
The remains of chess genius Bobby Fischer are to be exhumed to determine whether he is the father of a 9-year-old girl, a lawyer representing the child and her mother said yesterday.
Northern League demands freedom from Rome's rain
Friday, 18 June 2010
Italy's federalist and powerful Northern League, not content with demands for more local political autonomy, now wants freedom from the tyranny of national weather forecasts.
Sarkozy and the secret tapes: more twists in L'Oreal scandal
Friday, 18 June 2010
France's convoluted L'Oréal family fraud scandal became even more convoluted and even more gripping yesterday.
Europe toughens stance on Iranian nuclear ambitions
Friday, 18 June 2010
European Union leaders tightened the screw on Iran yesterday by approving new sanctions to block oil and gas investment and curb its refining and natural gas capability.
Demjanjuk witness accused of perjury in German court
Friday, 18 June 2010
A former US Secret Service forensics expert who testified at the John Demjanjuk Nazi war crimes trial is being investigated for perjury.
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• John Lichfield: Europe can't bring itself to go forward
From the beginning, the great euro crisis has been a confrontation between two versions of reality.
• Howard Jacobson: Where's the culture in our football?
I make this prophetic pronouncement with great sadness. We are not going to win the World Cup.
• Christina Patterson: Choice is not what some parents need
You can see why social services will try pretty much anything to keep children with their parents.
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