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Scottish officials said Saturday they were right to release a Libyan man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing because he was dying of cancer, even though he is still alive two years later.
As sporting rivalries go, few carry as much passion and fervor as a soccer match between Glasgow clubs Rangers and Celtic.
A true Scotsman is said to never wear anything under his kilt. But now Scots are being warned that the sartorial tradition could be both indecent and unhygienic.
Donald Trump used a trip to Scotland on Friday to give his strongest hint yet that he may run for U.S. president in 2012.
Just how risky is the Scottish national dish?
Royal Bank of Scotland PLC Chief Executive Stephen Hester lashed out at "political interference" in the partly nationalized bank as shareholders met to approve its participation in a government asset protection program on Tuesday.
Scotland freed the terminally ill Lockerbie bomber on compassionate grounds Thursday, letting the Libyan go home to die despite American pleas to show no mercy for the man responsible for the 1988 attack that killed 270 people.
Scotland freed the terminally ill Lockerbie bomber on compassionate grounds Thursday, letting him go home to Libya to die and rejecting American pleas to show no mercy to the man responsible for the 1988 attack that killed 270 people.
Scotland freed the Lockerbie bomber on compassionate grounds Thursday, allowing the terminally ill man to die in his homeland of Libya and rejecting American pleas for justice in the attack that killed 270 people.
Scotland freed the Lockerbie bomber on compassionate grounds Thursday, allowing the terminally ill man to die in his homeland of Libya and rejecting American pleas for justice in the attack that killed 270 people.
A decision on whether the Lockerbie bomber will be handed over to Libyan authorities will be made in the next few weeks, Scottish government officials said Wednesday.
There were kilts, caber-tossing and a touch of controversy as more than 40,000 Scots from around the world descended on Edinburgh Saturday for an event billed as the largest gathering of the clans in 200 years.
An unholy row has broken out over a ferry company's decision to sail on Sunday between a remote Scottish island and the mainland.
The Libyan man jailed for the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 was convicted on the basis of circumstantial evidence, his lawyer told a Scottish court Tuesday.
Angry Royal Bank of Scotland shareholders demanded that former chief executive Fred Goodwin return some of his multimillion-pound pension pot Friday in the first major stockholders session since the bank's near collapse last year.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Friday the Labour Party's surprise victory in a hotly contested special election shows the public approves of his handling of the economic crisis.
The Donald has trumped his Scottish opponents. Real estate tycoon Donald Trump won approval from the Scottish government Monday to build what he says will be "the world's greatest golf course" on a stretch of Scottish coast, over the objection of local officials and environmentalists.
Salman Rushdie says his mother's gossip had a strong influence on his literary career.
He's recognized around the world as the iconic face of James Bond. But in Britain, Sean Connery is also well known as a proud Scot, and on Monday he returns to his hometown to launch his autobiography.
Can there be more lurking in the mist? Despite a startling find announced Tuesday that doubled the estimated number of western lowland gorillas in central Africa, scientists warned that hundreds of primate species remain in danger of extinction.
Wildlife researchers said Tuesday that they've discovered 125,000 western lowland gorillas deep in the forests of the Republic of Congo, calling it a major increase in the animal's estimated population.
The puffin population off Scotland's east coast has dropped by nearly a third in less than five years, prompting scientists to issue warnings Wednesday about the orange-beaked seabird's future.
An Internet campaign to ban Britain's Treasury chief from the nation's pubs has struck a chord with the country's harried drinkers.
Scottish lawmakers on Wednesday backed government efforts to save Donald Trump's proposed $2.1 billion golf resort that would be built on an unspoiled beach near Aberdeen.
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