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Train reaction: A journey on the Danube Express

12.10.11
Adrian Mourby boards the lavish Danube Express heading from Budapest to Istanbul via Romania, encountering stunning scenery and quirky guests along the way... more

Andreas Varady has a slick all-round technique

22.03.11
Andreas Varady, a fresh-faced, self-taught youngster, did enough in the next hour to be regarded as a genuine prodigy... more

Machete is seized as police swoop on coach passengers

10.03.11
Four people arrested, one of them armed with a machete, after police used airport-style security measures to screen passengers on long-haul coaches arriving in north London ... more

Foreign drivers use loophole to pay only £100 for insurance

28.02.11
Thousands of foreign drivers in London are exploiting a legal loophole to avoid soaring car insurance costs as well as congestion and parking charges, it was claimed... more

Romanian 'Fagin' faces extradition for trafficking children

02.02.11
A Fagin-style criminal accused of smuggling an army of pickpockets into Britain - including two of his brothers - faces being sent back to his native Romania to face trial... more

Bath horror father in plea for burial cash

21.01.11
The family of a mother and child electrocuted in the bath have asked for help in raising £1,200 to take the victims back to Romania for burial... more

Protester jumps into Romanian parliament

23.12.10
A man flings himself from the balcony of the Romanian parliament in protest at austerity cuts... more

Transylvania: empire of the vampire

29.10.10
Transylvania is the land of Dracula and ancient forests, Magyars and wolves. And while staying in Prince Charles's Carpathian guesthouse, Laura Sevier has a close encounter with a mysterious count in tweed...... more

England qualify for European Under-21 Championships

12.10.10
Stuart Pearce's men snuffed out Romania with a 0-0 draw in play-off second leg in Botosani... more

Chris Smalling confident U21s will progress

11.10.10
Manchester United centre-back feels youngsters have given themselves a solid base from which they can progress to next summer's European Championships... more

Comedy after communism in Police, Adjective

01.10.10
Dry ironic humour manages to turn a Romanian law and order caper into something very memorable in Police, Adjective... more

'Dragon' dinosaur found in Romania

31.08.10
Experts name a dinosaur skeleton Balaur bondoc, which means “stocky dragon” in Romanian... more

Good Samaritan saves cat trapped in window

10.06.10
Video: They say cats normally get stuck up trees but one foolhardy feline managed to trap itself in a half-open window... more

Misery done well in The Happiest Girl in the World

28.05.10
When it comes to misery, Romanians do it better. As The Happiest Girl in the World shows.... more

Westminster Bridge jumper: Why I wanted to end my life

24.05.10
Exclusive: Last November 49-year-old Romanian John Untan leapt off Westminster Bridge as the world looked on. The story of his life and why he wanted to end it gives an extraordinary glimpse into the complex and often desperate world of London’s growing migrant population... more

Romanian children beg and steal £100,000 a year in London

09.04.10
Victims of child trafficking are earning up to £100,000 a year for Romanian gangs by being forced to beg and steal in London, it was revealed... more

Police smash Romanian trafficking ring that smuggles children to London

08.04.10
Police smash a Romanian child trafficking ring suspected of operating a multi-million pound thieving and benefit fraud racket in London... more

Council in Baby P scandal ‘loses’ 29 asylum children at risk from traffickers

26.03.10
Twenty-nine children seeking asylum in Britain have gone missing from the council at the centre of the Baby P scandal in the past three years... more

Rafael Benitez happy with first-leg lead over Romanians

19.02.10
Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez was satisfied with his side's 1-0 Europa League victory over Unirea Urziceni despite their obvious struggles to break down the determined Romanians... more

Ex-Regal boss Frank Timis set for another rich seam

13.01.10
Forever associated with the share disaster that was Regal Petroleum, former boss Frank Timis is aiming to tap the stock market again... more

Serbia facing point penalty over trouble

08.10.09
Group Seven leaders Serbia were warned by FIFA today they could be docked points if there is further crowd trouble in their two remaining World Cup qualifiers... more

Romania fans jeer Madonna

28.08.09
Madonna was booed on stage in Romania after she attacked discrimination against Gipsies... more

Duncan Bannatyne: I'd love to show Madonna what we have built in Romania

03.07.09
Duncan Bannatyne soon returns to Dragons' Den for possibly the last time. Here he reveals a philanthropic side that has seen him build an orphanage... more

Eduardo desperate to forget broken-leg horror

12.02.09
Football: Eduardo believes he has put his injury nightmare behind him after making a decisive return to action in Croatia's friendly against Romania... more

Big night on a small budget in Boogie

15.01.09
Boogie delves into recapturing lost youth in this well made low-budget eastern-european film. ... more

The best art house films for 2009

29.12.08
Critically and commercially, 2008 has been good for foreign movies and next year looks even better. From a Korean spaghetti western to a Danish war film, expect the unexpected.... more

Romanian workers 'barred from 2012'

18.12.08
Scores of Romanians helping to build the Olympic Park could be removed amid concerns over illegal employment, the Standard has learned... more

Memorial to a life cut short

29.05.08
California Dreamin' has been acclaimed by many as an outstanding comment on the relationship between Romania and the US but Charlotte O'Sullivan is not so sure...... more

An eye-catching performance

12.05.08
Looking like a balding bank manager, Selim Sesler seems an unlikely party animal — but his Turkish clarinet soars, swoops and dives. ... more


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