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, ...

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.

“In Britain and across Europe, free speech, I fear, is in retreat,” the vice president said at the time. In the White House earlier this year, Mr Vance said he knew of “infringements on free speech ...

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

The fire is burning just south of Lake Piru, a reservoir in the Los Padres National Forest. It is close by Lake Castaic, a ...

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.

A bid to have the sentence of a teenage boy who killed elderly dog walker Bhim Kohli increased is due to be heard at the Court of Appeal on Wednesday.

River Island is set to push ahead with plans to shut 33 stores after receiving court approval for a major restructuring.

“On Friday at around lunchtime, there was a small rockfall in the Loom area (back of the Giant’s Causeway) in Port Noffer,” they said. “As a dynamic site, rockfalls do occasionally occur at the World ...

The boy was hit by a single-decker bus near the entrance to the A&E department of the the Queen Elizabeth Queen Mother Hospital in Margate.