Earlier, he covered Eastern Europe for the Financial Times. He speaks Hungarian, German, French and Dutch. Ukraine could still become a NATO member in the future if it fulfils all conditions ...

A love-story-come-compendium-of-building-site-terms-in-German (Love Notes ... praying for a statue not to move because I didn’t want my world to be destroyed.” John’s mother’s encounter ...

A statue honouring the founder of modern-day Melbourne has been destroyed in the early hours of Saturday morning. Vandals ripped the John Batman monument from its plinth near Queen Victoria Market ...