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Europe's second largest country, Ukraine is a land of wide, fertile agricultural plains, with large pockets of heavy industry in the east. While Ukraine and Russia share common historical origins ...

Country music is often synonymous with one place - namely Nashville, Tennessee - but its influence stretches far further than that. Over the past few years, British acts have begun to achieve what ...

Britain has leapfrogged Germany, China and India to become the second most attractive country for investment behind America for the first time in PwC’s annual UK CEO survey. (Alamy/PA ...