While the UK is home to many beautiful beaches, not all stretches of coastline are safe for swimming – with some even closed ...

JOHN Swinney has led tributes to the Pope after he died aged 88, sparking an outpouring of grief around the world. In a sombre statement, the Vatican today confirmed Pope Francis, who was Bishop ...

The 16 newly designated geoparks are located in China, Democratic People's Republic of Korea –marking its first geopark and ...

This thrown together spoof of King Arthur would become, in 2005, the basis for an $11 million Broadway musical, "Spamalot." ...

Prince Borivoj of the Premyslid Dynasty (probably) started building Prague Castle in AD 880, and over the centuries various ...

In a fitting discovery for the Year of the Dragon, scientists in southern China have unearthed a fossil that mirrors ancient ...

England is an exasperating contradiction when it comes to cars. The largest nation on this soggy, overcrowded archipelago in ...

THERE are many factual inaccuracies in the film Braveheart, but one thing screenwriter Randall Wallace and director Mel Gibson got right was ...

This Celtic celebration of fire and fertility culminates in the marriage of the May Queen and the Green Man—and the arrival ...

New R&A chief executive Mark Darbon says he "would love" Donald Trump's Turnberry golf course to host the Open Championship.

A major Scottish university is planning a fresh wave of cost-cutting measures after being hit with a series of new financial ...