Warning of the week: Maldives

The Royal Yacht Britannia steamed 1,087,623 miles and weathered almost every sea condition imaginable during the 44 years the Queen sailed in her. But she was almost undone yesterday on a journey just a few hundred yards long.

Snaps of the children or holiday keepsakes needn't be forgotten in albums or laptops, there are new ways to display your precious photos

Blockbuster movies part-filmed in the UK are expected to boost "location vacation" tourism in 2012. Castle Combe, in Wiltshire, prominent in Steven Spielberg's War Horse, and Layer Marney Tower near Colchester, used in The Woman in Black, are two locations hoping for a boom in visitors.

Writers' fans outraged by proposed development of almost 50,000 homes in and around Haworth

Hundreds of Christians, defying lashing rain and wind, filled the ancient Bethlehem church that marks Jesus's traditional birthplace for Christmas Day Mass today.

Residents in Juzcar vote to keep paint job after tourist boom

If you're going to name your band after a Captain Beefheart album, you'd better make sure you're pretty damn good - or pretty damn weird, at least.

The Eden Project's creator wants to do it all over again – in Mongolia. And build a geothermal plant, teach us all to bake, start a new political party... Genevieve Roberts meets Tim Smit

This handsome city is looking its festive best and preparing to celebrate 150 years since Gustav Klimt's birth.

A groom set fire to the country house where his wedding reception was being held after he and his bride had a row with staff over their bar bill.

How many lives can Bernie Gunther have? The dogged Berlin policeman of Philip Kerr is now enjoying – if that's the word – his eighth. The Gunther books appear out of chronological sequence, but the protagonist remains consistent, stoical, appalled by others and himself, carrying the darkly flaming torch of gallows humour. After South America, Cuba and the US in the 1950s, he's back in the Second World War, this time in the service of the monster Reinhard Heydrich, Reichsprotector of Bohemia. It is September 1941.

One of Istanbul's main tourist attractions was attacked by a heavily-armed gunman today, wounding a Turkish soldier and a security guard before police killed him.

It has been 10 years since universal free entry to the permanent collections of the UK's elite group of national museums and galleries was introduced by the Labour Government. Following a campaign led by the museums themselves, the Art Fund and others, entry charges were dropped in stages – for children in 1999, the over-60s in 2000 and finally for all visitors from 1 December 2001.