The UN's COP29 climate talks have overrun into the weekend as a deep gulf formed between richer and poorer countries over ...

Storm Bert looks set to bring more heavy snowfall across Scotland on Saturday. A Met Office amber warning has been in place ...

Israel has carried out massive air strikes on central Beirut, Lebanese media say, and there are reports of several deaths. An ...

The US president-elect has emphasised the scale of his win – but data shows that most voters picked someone else.

Donald Trump has nominated Scott Bessent to lead the US Treasury Department, a post with wide oversight of tax policy, public ...

Prof Alastair Hay, an expert in environmental toxicology from the University of Leeds, explained: "Ethanol acts as a ...

Leighton Clarkson has praised the "healthy competition" in the Aberdeen squad, saying they "are all best mates" in the ...

If these are indeed signs that China plans to take a more central role in the future, just as the US is stepping back, it ...

A jury has found there were repeated failures and a lack of professionalism in the care of a teenage mother who took her own ...

Residents living in a seaside town have been left positively bemused after their annual Christmas tree was installed on a ...

A group of MPs want to abolish all of a county's 15 councils in a bid to create a simpler local government. The Labour MPs ...

There are no "red lines" when it comes to support for Ukraine, the French Foreign Minister has told the BBC. Jean-Noël Barrot ...