Full Coverage: Northern Europe

26.12.2008 Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad delivered Channel 4's alternative Christmas address yesterday, sending a message of "happiness, prosperity, peace and brotherhood for humanity" which immediately ignited a furious row.

20.12.2008 A film season - with some classics - complements Indian Highway, an exhibition and events programme at the Serpentine Gallery that provides a snapshot of artists working in India today.

18.12.2008 Attempts to introduce genetically modified foods had been “cack-handed” because proponents failed to understand that the issue was not technology but food culture, Prof Timothy Lang said at the opening of a new Science Museum exhibition.

17.12.2008 What a difference it makes when you put something in a showcase, says David Spence of the London Museum, pointing to exhibits in the museum’s new Homeless in the Capital exhibition.

16.12.2008 Laws that withdraw all support from asylum-seekers should be scrapped as part of a far-reaching overhaul of the system designed to speed up decisions and return people to their home countries, according to a new report from the think-tank set up by the former Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith.
+ UK Border Agency annual report

08.12.2008 The carnage of the terrorist attack at Mumbai's railway station was given relatively poor coverage in the media. Those of us with a fear of railway terror will have India's ordinary travellers in our thoughts.

04.12.2008 Sustainable management of UK seas and protection of marine species and habitats moved a step closer with the Government's commitment to a full UK Marine & Coastal Access Bill, according to an environmental group.

03.12.2008 TUC general secretary Brendan Barber is refusing to back down over a decision to let out its congress hall this Friday to a British company whose suppliers are alleged to use sweatshop labour in Bangladesh to manufacture cheap T shirts.

03.12.2008 Charities often implement environmental initiatives as a result of pressure from key individuals within the organisation and when they move on, the impetus for change can be lost, says a new Charity Commission report.

02.12.2008 The British government’s renewed promise to deliver 0.7 per cent of gross national income in aid has been welcomed by a development group, which calls on other rich nations to follow through on their commitments.

01.12.2008 Is it wise to blame climate change for the horse chestnut leaf miner moth now active in southern England? Yes and no is the prudent answer.