A Met Office yellow warning, covering parts of the Highlands, Argyll and Bute, Perthshire and the Stirling area, is in force and runs until midday on Tuesday. Travel disruption and flooding could hit ...

The hit, which took 39 years to become a Christmas number one, topped the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra’s poll.

Drivers are being urged not to travel on major routes for six hours on both Friday and Saturday to avoid the worst Christmas holiday traffic. The RAC and transport analytics company Inrix said roads ...

Former Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith is applying for an urgent question in the Commons on the influence of the United Front Work Department.

An Israeli airstrike hit a school and killed at least 16 people in the southern city of Khan Younis, according to Nasser Hospital.

The Foreign Secretary said Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) remains proscribed but ‘as you would expect’ the Government has spoken to the group.

Syria is taking its first steps in the post-Assad era as its people come to terms with life under new rulers. The few ...

Pope Francis urged people to “make children” as he made his first papal visit to the French island of Corsica on Sunday. Francis also called for a dynamic form of laicism, promoting the kind of ...

The military juntas of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso announced in January that they had decided to leave Ecowas.

One man remains in critical condition after a double-decker bus hit a railway bridge in Glasgow. Six other people needed hospital treatment following the crash on Cook Street in the Tradeston area of ...

Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was discharged from hospital on Sunday after undergoing surgery to stop a brain bleed. The 79-year-old president appeared at a press conference on Sunday ...

Police have launched a murder inquiry following the “brutal and senseless” death of a woman in Co Down. The victim, who suffered a head injury, has been named as Karen Cummings, 40. Two men have been ...