The AnswerBank Articles

The Italian job

By Katherine MacColl HUNDREDS of thousands of tourists visit Italy each year, but now it seems that the country is paying a high price for its popularity. Vatican officials in Rome have announced01:00 Fri 12th Jan 2001

Full of Eastern promise

By Katherine MacColl IT'S a time for family and friends. But it's also a time to get the house cleaned, get your haircut, pay off your debts and perhaps buy new clothes. Press Association The01:00 Wed 10th Jan 2001

Let the train take the strain

By Katherine MacColl IT'S a fact the world is getting smaller - and it's never been easier to get around. These days you can board a train in a city centre and find yourself in the capital city of01:00 Wed 10th Jan 2001

Wonder Walls

MOST people know there's a list somewhere and can usually get the Pyramids right. But few know the exact Seven Wonders of the World and their location. It was essential knowledge in any good01:00 Tue 02nd Jan 2001

Flying high

By Katherine MacColl IT'S much more common than you think, it's a cause of great distress before holidays or business meetings and can cause signifiant tension in relationships: One in five of us01:00 Tue 02nd Jan 2001

Iron awe

By Katherine MacColl Would you put a rundown industrial landscape in the same category as India's Taj Mahal, Egypt's pyramids or Australia's Great Barrier Reef Former Welsh mining town01:00 Sat 30th Dec 2000

Life's a beach... for lawyers

By Katherine MacColl DID you choose to swop the frost and mulled wine that goes with a traditional British Christmas for sun and sangria Where you spend your holidays says a lot about you. 01:00 Wed 27th Dec 2000

Space invaders

By Katherine MacColl IT LACKS atmosphere and there isn't a swimming pool or a beach bar in site , so why are people desperate to take the first chartered shuttle to the moon 01:00 Mon 18th Dec 2000

Wembley's woes

By Tom Gard THE FRENCH have Stade de France, the Australians a magnificent new Olympic Stadium, both were built pretty much on time and to budget. So, what do we get when we decide to build a home01:00 Wed 13th Dec 2000

Short shrift given to Union Jack

HOME secretary Jack Straw's proposals for a united British football team have gone down like a lead balloon. But why Surely he is right to assert that if the home nations pooled their talent we01:00 Wed 13th Dec 2000