The mercury is set to drop sharply, with lows of minus 16C possible in Scotland and northern England overnight on Thursday.

A yellow alert for Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Moray, the Highlands, Western Isles, Orkney and Shetland runs until midnight on Thursday.

The former New York City mayor owes £118 million dollars to two Georgia election workers after he was found to have defamed them.

CMAL chief executive Kevin Hobbs, left, and director of vessels Jim Anderson (Image: Newsquest) Ardrossan will then be left with no ferry sailings at all for two months until the old Arran vessel, MV ...

Piers Fearick’s picture of a yellowhammer claimed the first prize in the wildlife category of the South Downs National Park’s annual competition.

Pope Francis has denounced the “scourge” of child labour and other abuses suffered by children, saying anyone who harms or exploits a child will have to answer to God.

A state of emergency has been declared after a wildfire whipped up by extreme winds swept through a Los Angeles hillside ...

A Swiss won, a Danish man and the pilot died when the plane crashed during take-off from an Australian tourist island.

The US National Weather Service said it was expecting what could be the strongest Santa Ana windstorm for more than a decade.

Ukraine, up against a larger enemy, Russia, relies on Western and especially US military backing to keep fighting.

US President-elect Donald Trump tried again on Tuesday to delay this week’s sentencing in his hush money case, asking a New ...

The energy major also expects final quarter profits in its gas business to be ‘significantly lower’ than the previous three months.