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New book charts life of Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz, feted then cold-shouldered as first woman to make the voyage alone For a short while in the late 1970s, Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz was probably the most famous woman in communist Poland. As the first woman to sail solo around the world, she was feted in the media, paraded at

For some farmers already struggling, paying for more of their pollution is a step too far. Germany is the latest country to see anger boil over The columns of tractors that have blocked roads in Germany, causing chaos in cities and headaches for commuters, are the latest wave in a growing tide of anger against

Pennsylvania woman downloaded images to computer in failed effort to implicate estranged husband A Pennsylvania woman convicted of downloading child pornography to frame her estranged husband must spend six months to two years in county jail.

The wife of 15th-century Italian artist Paolo Uccello used to beg him to come to bed. She was fed up of him staying up all night drawing objects with the new method of 3D illusion or as it was called at the time, "perspective". He still wouldn't come to bed. "This perspective is such

A rail-replacement service turned into a non-existent taxi. Once again, the rich take dividends and the rest of us pay the costs The weather was worse than forecast. By the time I reached Bristol, at 5pm, all trains to the south-west had been cancelled, because of rising flood waters. It was no ones fault