The UN weather agency is reporting that 2023 was the driest year in more than three decades for the world’s rivers, as the record-hot year underpinned a drying up of water flows and contributed to ...

A senior member of Myanmar’s former ruling party has died aged 72 while serving a prison sentence widely considered to be politically motivated.

SNP work and pensions spokeswoman Kirsty Blackman has written to Rachel Reeves at the start of Challenge Poverty Week and ahead of the Budget on October 30, warning she “must end austerity and start ...

The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget found a second Donald Trump presidency could heap billions of dollars more onto the US national debt.

Fire and emergency crews were called to Alloa at about 6pm on Sunday amid reports of an explosion at a block of flats. One man, who was inside the Kellie Place property when the explosion happened, ...

Johnnie Walker has announced he is leaving BBC Radio 2 after 58 years on radio, find out who will be replacing the DJ.