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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

Ann Altman has filed a lawsuit claiming her brother sexually abused her over a number of years, starting when they were children.

Patients have been urged to attend A&E alone as NHS hospitals grapple with high demand amid rising flu cases. Several NHS trusts declared critical incidents due to “exceptionally high demands” in ...