This tragic fiasco has eerie echoes of the Nakba of 1948, when the Palestinians were forcibly removed from their historic homeland, to make way for the birth of the state of Israel. Many Palestinians ...

The bodies of Dawn and Andrew Searle were discovered at their home in France on Thursday. A Scots couple found dead at their ...

In 1768, the first edition of the “Encyclopedia Britannica” (Latin for British Encyclopedia) appeared in Edinburgh, Scotland.

First Minister John Swinney has ruled out the legal reintroduction of lynx into the wild in Scotland. His comments follow concerns about the illegal release of four lynx in the Cairngorms last month.

Land in Edinburgh has been secured by a social enterprise who will bring 1,300 new homes to the western outskirts of the city ...

The River Avon flows through the “rust belt” of West Lothian, the old industrial heartland of Scotland.  But on a walk along its banks last week I saw few signs of the old civilisation.  Yes, there ...