Mr Swinney has been named as the new SNP leader – and is now likely to become Scotland’s next first minister after a vote in Holyrood later ...

There have been reports of a stabbing in Bury town centre over the bank holiday weekend. Witnesses said a police cordon was set up after the incident near Silver Street on Saturday night, May 4. It is ...

The Israeli army has told Palestinians to begin evacuating eastern Rafah, according to an Israeli Defence Force statement on ...

A 16-year-old boy who was shot dead by police after stabbing a man in the Australian city of Perth had been part of a ...

The Israeli army has ordered some 100,000 Palestinians to begin evacuating from the southern city of Rafah, signalling that a ...

Mr Swinney was elected unopposed as the only candidate to succeed Mr Yousaf, who announced one week ago he was stepping down as SNP leader and Scottish First Minister. In his first speech as the party ...

Hamas has announced it has accepted an Egyptian-Qatari proposal for a ceasefire to halt the seven-month war with Israel in Gaza. It came hours after Israel ordered about 100,000 Palestinians to begin ...

There is four miles of congested traffic on the M62 westbound between J22 for Denshaw and J21 for Rochdale It comes following a crash which has ...

Israel’s plan to attack the Gazan city has raised fears over the potential harm to more than a million Palestinian civilians sheltering there.

The Met Office has issued yellow weather warnings for parts of central and southern Scotland, Wales and parts of England on May 6. It warns that spray and sudden flooding may create difficult driving ...

French President Emmanuel Macron will press China’s Xi Jinping to use his influence to move Russia toward ending the war in ...