JOHN Swinney should have ignored the meeting of the Council of the Nations and Regions. Whether it is held in Edinburgh, Glasgow or Aberdeen, the population of Scotland expects him to act like the ...

THIS week marked a year since 1200 people were killed by Hamas, and 251 taken hostage in the attacks against Israel. Since the October 7, ...

IN one of his essays, Somhairle MacLean wrote that “Scottish Gaelic song is the chief artistic glory” of Scotland.

The Majestic Line (www.themajesticline.co.uk) runs a flotilla of four small cruise ships throughout the Hebrides from Oban, with occasional forays through the Great Glen, to Orkney and into the Clyde.

Rescuers were still saving people from swollen rivers on Friday, but many expressed relief the impact of the hurricane was not worse.

The research found that around one fifth (20.1%) of pet owners introduce their new puppy to their existing cats immediately, and some 18.9% do it in less than two hours. However, gradual introductions ...

An Israeli airstrike killed two Lebanese soldiers and wounded three other troops on Friday, Lebanon’s military said, an ...

The storm flooded barrier islands, tore the roof off the Tampa Bay Rays’ baseball stadium and toppled a construction crane.

A man in his 60s is missing and five others adults were rescued after a rowing boat capsized on the River Thames on Friday. Emergency services were called to Sunbury Lock, Sunbury-on-Thames, at about ...

Prosecutors are asking a Manhattan judge to consolidate the two sex crime cases facing Harvey Weinstein in New York into a single trial — a move the disgraced movie mogul’s lawyers oppose.

A Paralympic gold medallist has described how he was “as close to death” as a person can be after contracting meningitis. Wheelchair rugby player Aaron Phipps said his experience was “absolutely ...

The attempted murder trial of a man charged with severely injuring author Sir Salman Rushdie in a 2022 knife attack has been put on hold while judges consider a request to move it to another New York ...