First Minister John Swinney and former prime minister Gordon Brown are in attendance at the service at St Giles’ Cathedral in the Scottish capital.

The funeral of comedian Janey Godley is taking place in Glasgow, with former Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon among the mourners. The service is being held at at St Mary’s Cathedral in Glasgow ...

THE Labour MP for Bangor Aberconwy, Claire Hughes, has explained why she voted in support of a bill to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales yesterday (November 29).

A Hampshire Constabulary spokesman said that about 200 people were at the protest, where a minority of those involved became aggressive.

Financial Conduct Authority chief executive Nikhil Rathi has defended the organisation after the report by MPs and peers.

The boxes holding the ballots were opened at 9am at count centres across the country. They must first be sorted before counting formally begins, in a process which could last days because of Ireland’s ...

A Russia military delegation arrived in North Korea as international concerns about the two countries’ expanding co-operation ...

A swift, three-day trial against Alexei Gorinov, once a low-profile activist, underscored Moscow’s intolerance of any ...

Experts trained Ivor, a six-year-old cocker spaniel Labrador cross, to identify the highly destructive pathogen phytophthora ...

The shock offensive sent residents fleeing and added fresh uncertainty to a region reeling from multiple wars.

John MacKinnon, 47, was murdered by his brother-in-law Finlay MacDonald in a spree of violence on Skye and the Scottish ...

Syria’s state media said projectiles from insurgents landed in the student accommodation at Aleppo’s university, killing four ...