Arab Strap and two Mercury Prize nominees are among those shortlisted for the Scottish album of the year award, organisers ...

A female red panda born at a Scottish zoo is healthy and doing well, according to her keepers. The kit, who has yet to be named, was born at the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland’s (RZSS) Edinburgh ...

An appeal hearing has begun for two police officers sacked for lying after saying they could smell cannabis during a stop and search of British athlete Bianca Williams and her partner.

A boat carrying scores of passengers capsized on Lake Kivu in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday, killing at least 50 people, witnesses told The Associated Press.

The Queen is patron of the £13 million project, which will serve as a gathering place on state occasions and house ticketing and ...

The Tory leadership hopeful has claimed soldiers are killing terrorists for fear of detainees being released under European human rights law.

Taylor Swift’s “unexpected” donation to the Trussell Trust food banks will have a nationwide impact, according to one of the charity’s directors.

Presenter Laura Kuenssberg said the programme would not go ahead because she had accidentally sent the former prime minister her briefing notes.

Average hold-ups on major roads in England reached 11.0 seconds per vehicle per mile in the year to the end of June.

Presenter Laura Kuenssberg said the programme would not go ahead because she had accidentally sent the former prime minister her briefing notes.

A paedophile who murdered an 11-year-old boy while he was a teenager has been refused release by the Parole Board. Convicted sex offender Dominic McKilligan, 44, killed schoolboy Wesley Neailey in ...

Two Swedish teenagers were jailed on Thursday in pre-trial detention in connection with two pre-dawn explosions in the vicinity of the Israeli embassy in Copenhagen a day earlier. Prosecutors said ...