SPOTLIGHT

Visitors to BMW Welt - one of Munich's top attractions, can now enjoy two star cooking. The Michelin award has gone to THE CLOUD by Käfer, just a year after the restaurant's opening. From 8 July, chef de cuisine Jen Madsne will offer a new menu based on influence from a trip to the Amazon region where ,according to a statement from the attraction he "immersed himself in ancestral techniques, indigenous produce and a deeply respectful approach to resources". As well as runni

Airlines look likely to face a crackdown on current excuses for failing to pay delay or cancellation compensation under a consumer rules shake up planned by the EU. They will find it more difficult to claim hold ups have been the result of "extraordinary circumstances" beyond their control. Under the current rule there has been much argument over which circumstances qualify as valid reasons not to pay out. Soon they will be restricted to a l,ist of specific events - inclu

Image Gatien Baron, Sancerre The lovely French wine village of Sancerre has a new 5 star hotel. Les Hauts de Sancerre , in a converted...

When the comic film star WC Fields, a lifelong atheist, was in hospital, close to the end of his life, the story goes that a visiting...