BBC Europe editor Mark Mardell on German attitudes to the swastika and the use of military force, and on Nicolas Sarkozy's plans to take forward the European constitution.

There were recriminations in the Big Brother house during the weekend over the use of the term machiavellian. Here's our idiot's guide.

Fans of Discworld author and fantasy icon Terry Pratchett, are expected to take over the town of Wincanton.

Terry Pratchett, the author of the 'Discworld' fantasy novels, is to be awarded an honorary doctorate by Bath University.

A town with a fictional twin city from the Discworld novels is not allowed to advertise its mythical links on road signs.

Best-selling author Terry Pratchett is to attend a festival featuring a twinning ceremony between a Somerset town and a city in his Discworld books.

Archaeologists in Egypt discover some of the most lifelike mummies ever found in the Bahariya oasis, some 400km west of Cairo.

An archaeological dig in Egypt has found the burial chamber of an ancient mayor who thought he was a pharaoh.

French archaeologists have discovered the 4,000-year-old remains of an ancient queen's pyramid near Cairo.