Electricity is being slowly restored as the number of homes and businesses without power dipped below one million.

Ant agriculture started 66 million years ago as fungi experienced “a heyday” in the aftermath of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs, a new study suggests. Colonies of ants began farming the ...

Investigators said the infant suffered more than 50 rat bites and required treatment at an Indianapolis hospital.

The Irish and British foreign ministers have expressed “deep concern” about the escalation in the Middle East and called for “a political solution”. The deputy Irish premier and Foreign Affairs ...

Glasgow Airport has introduced changes to its security area from this week. The airport is preparing to install new security equipment and while this is being done, priority passengers will have to ...

Proposals to change the law to give terminally ill people “choice at the end of life” are to be introduced in Parliament this month. Labour MP Kim Leadbeater said she hoped for “honest, compassionate ...

An aspiring photographer with a rare form of cancer has said it was ‘mind-blowing’ to hug the Princess of Wales at Windsor Castle. Liz Hatton, 16, was hugged by Kate, who has completed chemotherapy ...

Deal handing sovereignty of British Indian Ocean Territory was reached between UK and Mauritius, with the White House voicing approval.

Helene came ashore last Thursday in northern Florida before carving a path of destruction through the south east.

A PLANNING application for a proposed battery energy storage system in Port Glasgow has been withdrawn. Bluestone Energy had lodged an application seeking permission for a 49-megawatt facility at the ...

Staff Sergeant John McKelvie, 51, of the Scottish and North Irish Yeomanry, was airlifted to hospital but died on February 4 2019.