Firefighters who helped contain France’s largest wildfire in decades are on high alert because of forecasts of very high ...

James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed Moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering, has died aged 97. Mr Lovell died on Thursday in Lake Forest, Illinois, ...

A fast-growing brush fire has forced thousands of people to evacuate a mountainous area north of Los Angeles. The Canyon Fire ...

Nicola Sturgeon spoke of feeling she had ‘failed’ when she did not win the constituency she stood in at the first Scottish Parliament election.

Nicola Sturgeon has opened up about her arrest, describing in her new book how the police investigation was like “mental torture” and she thought about disappearing into the North Sea.

Scottish police are thought to be on notice for a visit by the US vice president, who is on holiday in the UK with his family.

Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Harris said Ireland was not alone in wanting to ban trade with the occupied Palestinian territories.

Stargazers have already been treated to one rare planetary parade this year, when Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune could all be seen in the sky at once in January. Then, in February, ...

Donald Trump has said he would meet Vladimir Putin even if the Russian leader will not meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr ...

Conor O’Rourke, who is now three, was part of a rare subgroup of patients which made his condition essentially untreatable.

Officers at an address in Brierley Hill seized a BMW 3 series that is reported to have been stolen and cloned, and three men were detained after being arrested at different locations.

The last of 72,000 homes which lost power during Storm Floris have been reconnected after five days. Power network Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) said the storm was “exceptional” ...