INNER CITY: Ceaucescu's Palace is in the background of this view across the rooftops of Bucharest, Romania. QLD News Don't miss out on the headlines from QLD News.

IN THE second-poorest country of the European Union, on the southside of its capital, lies a collection of labyrinthine streets that together make up the city's most feared suburb.

The second leg of Middlesbrough's Uefa Cup semi final tie with Romanian side Steaua Bucharest, in 2006. Bucharest had won the first leg by 1-0 and left the tie finely balanced. Before the second ...

Deep under the streets of Bucharest - in Europe, in the 21st century - there is a network of tunnels and sewers that is home to hundreds of men, women and children stricken by drug abuse HIV and TB.