Nearly a dozen wild animals, including red-listed birds, have been tortured and killed using 'catapults' in a leafy London borough repeatedly hit by a string of similar attacks.
In the most recent deadly finding, five pigeons, three squirrels, one starling, a UK red-listed species, a parakeet and a singular magpie were found dumped in a tree.
A cash-strapped health board faces a bill of more than £1.3million for a new asylum seeker centre – including monthly sexual health clinics, vaccinations and mental health support.
NHS Highland will be hit by the eye-watering costs due to the Home Office’s plan to accommodate around 300 asylum seekers at the Cameron Barracks military base in Inverness.
They have been worn by Tartan Army fans at football tournaments around the globe for decades.
But kilt-clad Scots could be banned from sporting sporrans when the national team travels to America for the World Cup in June.
Under entry rules to host venues in Massachusetts and Florida any bags bigger than 4.5in x 6.5in are currently not permitted unless they are transparent, which would mean the traditional decorative pouch could not be worn as it would be too large.
Party conferences are rock concerts for political anoraks. Gathering at a corporate arena or cultural venue to watch your leader put on a show.
Having to endure hit-and-miss warm-up acts in the form of promotion-seeking MPs with no trace of personality and MPs with too much personality to have a chance of promotion.
Discounts on capital gains tax have done little to address the reason why the measure was introduced, Australia's peak union body says, as the federal government weighs up whether to change the controversial measure.
An inquiry into capital gains tax will begin hearings on Monday, with union officials and leading economists set to give evidence.
A grieving mother has told of her heartbreak after finding out that an illegal migrant who killed her son could be released in just two years.
Phillip Bruce, 35, was fatally injured when a vehicle ploughed into the moped he was riding on August 1, 2025, in Ware, Hertfordshire.
Puerto Vallarta, a Mexican city popular with tourists, has erupted into fiery chaos after federal forces conducted an operation to kill a prominent cartel leader, and some visitors have become stranded in the commotion.
The US state department has issued a security alert for all Americans stranded in the area, warning them to shelter in place, avoid crowds, and minimize their movements.
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani ordered a citywide travel ban ahead of a catastrophic blizzard that is set to blanket the East Coast in two feet of snow.
Nearly 54 million people along the East Coast are bracing for impact from a major winter storm expected to bring heavy snow, high winds, blizzard conditions and coastal flooding across the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast today into Monday.
The father of murdered student Karen Buckley revealed he has forgiven his daughter’s killer.
John Buckley has sent a letter and a crucifix to Alexander Pacteau, 31, who is serving a minimum 23-year sentence for the murder in Glasgow in 2015.
The father of a child who was being treated for cancer at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (QEUH) has told how a cleaner warned him tap water on the boy’s ward was not fit for animals.
David Campbell claims it was an open secret among staff, including nurses, as far back as 2018 that insanitary conditions at the Glasgow site were potentially lethal for vulnerable patients.
An urgent appeal to locate two sisters last seen 48 hours ago has been issued by police.
Sisters Afia and Bilal have been reported missing after disappearing together from their home on Friday evening.
They were last seen on Wandsworth High Street in London. Afia, 16, was believed to be wearing a Gucci shawl and Bilal, 10, was wearing a black coat.
Britain was accused by the Kremlin today of being behind an assassination bid in Moscow aimed at one of Vladimir Putin's highest-level military spy chiefs.
Lieutenant General Vladimir Alekseyev, the 64-year-old deputy head of Russia's GRU military intelligence, is recovering in hospital after being shot in a residential building on February 6.
