Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer insisted progress was being made towards a ceasefire despite apparent splits between European ...

A “masterful” painting by Scottish colourist Samuel John Peploe which once hung in his patron’s drawing room is to be ...

Some 10,605 assaults on staff in male and female jails were recorded in the period up to December 2024, at a rate of 122 per 1,000 prisoners.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said after the attack that he is cutting short his official trip to South Africa and ...

The Israeli military said it targeted a command and control centre for Hamas and the smaller Islamic Jihad militant group.

US President Donald Trump’s trade war and annexation threats have upended Canada’s election and improved the fortunes of the ...

Cast and crew from the programme, which is being axed by BBC Scotland, were at the Scottish Parliament on Thursday.

Government funding for free school meals offered to pupils in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 will rise from £2.58 to £2.61 a meal in September.

Popular English idioms such as ‘spill the beans’ are evolving as they pass from one generation to the next, according to the British Council.

Kate Osborne MP said the Supreme Court’s decision ‘will have a huge impact on my life and many other cis lesbians’.

Leeds Crown Court heard that Adrian Daniel, 33, died 10 days after he was hit by Mansfield Town player Lucas Akins, who was driving his seven-year-old daughter to a piano lesson in a Mercedes G-Wagon ...

The head of Edinburgh University has said “around 350” staff have taken voluntary redundancy as the sector wrestles with a financial crisis, with more jobs being potentially cut. The institution ...