THE price of Burgundy is going to increase again next year as for the third year in a row the region has been hit by hailstones as big as golf balls.

Officials in Germany’s western city of Koblenz say some 45,000 residents have to be evacuated from their homes as officials try to defuse a Second World War bomb discovered in the Rhine river.

Nato leaders have chosen the prime minister of Denmark as the alliance’s new secretary general at their 60th anniversary summit in Strasbourg and have given full support to President Obama’s new Afghan war strategy.

Black-clad protesters attacked police and set a customs station ablaze today on a bridge linking France and Germany which served hours earlier as the backdrop for a show of unity by Nato leaders.

Police in France and Germany prepared today to protect Nato’s 60th anniversary summit after quelling violent protests on the eve of the gathering with tear gas, rubber bullets and the detention of hundreds of protesters.

Tens of thousands of demonstrators were today descending on two German towns and the French city of Strasbourg to protest at a Nato summit marking the alliance’s 60th anniversary.

Archaeologists in the Netherlands have uncovered what they believe is part of the hardened military road that marked the northern boundary of the Roman Empire from the first century AD.

German-born Pope Benedict XVI took to the broad Rhine river to preach to his flock from the bow of a cruise ship on his homecoming trip to his native land - his first foreign trip as Pope.

Hundreds of thousands of young people from 184 countries jammed into Cologne, Germany, for the Roman Catholic Church’s 20th World Youth Day, singing and praying together as they awaited the arrival today of Pope Benedict XVI.

Hundreds of thousands of young people from 184 countries jammed into the western German city of Cologne for the Roman Catholic Church’s 20th World Youth Day, singing and praying together as they awaited the arrival today of Pope Benedict XVI.

Afghan factions today open talks on how to share power and secure peace once the Taliban are defeated.