The Da Vinci code sequel - released this week - uses Christianity's most important city as a backdrop. Melanie McDonagh went on a pilgrimage to see some of its most spectacular sacred sights... more
Airlines are bracing themselves for meeting a large number of compensation claims from passengers who have suffered cancelled flights due to "technical reasons", following a European Court ruling.... more
Aviation: The takeover of much of the European airline industry by the continent’s biggest carrier seemed to move ahead as separate reports linked German giant Lufthansa with bids for SAS of Scandinavia and Italy’s Alitalia... more
Aviation: Italian national carrier Alitalia has set to work to persuade the two remaining hold-out unions to agree to a government-brokered rescue plan... more
Aviation: Alitalia's special administrator will make a last-ditch attempt to sell Italy's loss-making national airline before calling in the liquidators... more
As Sarah Skelding's situation demonstrates, the problem of the housing crisis is not the difficulty in getting mortgage finance, but the fact that houses are grossly over-priced... more
Rising fuel bills are transforming airline economics and pushing the industry towards mergers, but the proposed deal between British Airways and Iberia might not be all plain sailing... more
London Gateway, the £1.5bn container port under construction on the Thames at Thurrock, will have capacity to unload six of the world's largest ships at one time and have as much impact on the capital as a new airport or half a dozen Westfield shopping centres
With London Fashion Week kicking off on Friday, British designer Matthew Williamson tells Rosamund Urwin about breaking up with his ex, post-show partying and his new model man
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