Topic: Western Europe

Chinese pandas go on display at Edinburgh zoo

Hundreds of animal lovers flocked to Edinburgh Zoo on Friday to get the first glimpse of two giant pandas which arrived from China earlier this month.Up to 600 people were expected to flood through the gates of the zoo in the Scottish ...
China and France have agreed a high-level deal for Beijing to lend two giant pandas to a French zoo for 10 years starting from early 2012, the zoo's director said on Wednesday.The pair will be the first pandas sent to France since ...

London 2012 Olympic torch route unveiled

The Olympic torch will visit famous sights such as Stonehenge on its journey around Britain before the London 2012 Games, organisers said on Monday.The flame will also scale mountains, telescopes, take a ride on the train and a dash through a shopping ...

Olympic torch to visit Stonehenge on 2012 tour

The Olympic torch will visit famous sights such as Stonehenge on its journey around Britain before the London 2012 Games, organisers said Monday.The flame will also scale mountains, telescopes, take a ride on the train and a dash through a shopping centre ...

Statue of Liberty celebrates 125th birthday

The Statue of Liberty, iconic symbol of freedom, New York City and US immigration, celebrated its 125th birthday Friday, before closing for a year's repairs.More than 1,000 people from the United States and France, the country that gifted the statue in the ...

Travel Postcard: 48 hours in Valencia, Spain

VALENCIA, Spain (Reuters) - Take Paris, add palm trees and a handful of fruit to the wine, swap a snaking, sunken park for the Seine and paella for steak frites, put the whole thing on the sea and you get something like ...

Berlin bubble artshow is first step to flying city

BERLIN (Reuters) - Shimmering giant bubbles carpeted with exotic plants are suspended within the vaulted hallway of a former Berlin railway station, in a new exhibition of the artworks of Tomas Saraceno.Visitors can enter the soap-like bubbles and experience a sense of ...

Germany to hand back stolen Namibian skulls

Germany will face up to a bloody chapter of its colonial past Friday when it hands back 20 skulls spirited away after what many historians call the first genocide of the 20th century.A delegation of 55 Namibians is in Berlin to attend ...

Magna Carta copy on show in London

An original copy of the Magna Carta dating back to 1297 was on display in London on Sunday, giving people a rare glimpse of one of the most important legal documents in the history of democracy.The City of London Corporation's 1297 Magna ...

Travel Postcard: 48 hours in Paris

PARIS (Reuters) - The city of glamour, grande cuisine and the ghosts of the guillotined is one of Europe's most beautiful. Welcoming some 28 million visitors a year, Paris offers everything from some of the most famous museums and restaurants in the ...
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