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Scottish soccer club Rangers has confirmed a U.S.-based consortium that includes an investment arm of the San Francisco 49ers has purchased a majority ownership stake.
Rangers opted against giving a guard of honor for newly crowned Scottish champion Celtic ahead of the 1-1 draw between the fierce Glasgow rivals.
A cargo ship which collided with a U.S. tanker in the North Sea earlier this month has been towed to the Scottish port of Aberdeen.
The British economy unexpectedly shrank during January, piling pressure on Treasury chief Rachel Reeves before a key statement about the state of the public finances later this month.
Ireland has called in help from England and France to restore power to hundreds of thousands of people after the most disruptive storm for years.
Millions of people in Ireland and northern parts of the U.K. have heeded the advice of authorities to stay at home.
Celtic defender Cameron Carter-Vickers raised his hands to his head in despair before his own goal crossed the line to give Club Brugge in a 1-1 draw the lead in the Champions League.
The Edinburgh Zoo has launched a cuteness contest between Haggis, its newborn pygmy hippo, and Moo Deng, the adorable mini hippopotamus that became a viral sensation at a Thailand zoo this summer.
Cristiano Ronaldo has scored his record-extending 133rd international goal to keep Portugal perfect in the Nations League with a 3-1 win over Poland while Spain struck late to edge Denmark 1-0.
Lydia Ko has captured her third major title and first in eight years by winning the Women’s British Open by two strokes at the home of golf at St. Andrews.
Two-time champion Jiyai Shin has capitalized on a back-nine collapse by top-ranked Nelly Korda to take a one-shot lead after the third round of the Women’s British Open at St. Andrews.
Charley Hull rolled in a 6-foot putt on No. 18 for the last of her six birdies to shoot 5-under 67 and take a one-stroke lead after the first round of the Women's British Open.
Billy Horschel, who tied for second at last week’s British Open after holding the 54-hole lead, withdrew from the 3M Open on Thursday morning due to illness.
Yaroslava Mahuchikh of Ukraine has set a world record in the women’s high jump at a Diamond League track and field meeting in Paris.
A dramatic stoppage-time goal saw Hungary beat Scotland 1-0 at the European Championship to dash its opponent’s hopes of reaching the knockout stage of a major tournament for the first time in its history.
Hungary forward Barnabás Varga is in hospital in stable condition after a serious-looking injury at his team’s final group match at the European Championship.
The start of the women’s European Championship qualifier between Scotland and Israel was delayed after a protestor got onto the field at Hampden Park and chained himself to a goalpost.
Britain’s political party leaders are crisscrossing the country on the first day of a six-week election campaign.
Scotland’s leader has cancelled a speech as he fights for his political life in the wake of his decision to pull the plug on a three-year power-sharing agreement.
Scotland’s leader is facing a potential battle for survival after ending a three-year power-sharing agreement with the Scottish Green Party following a clash over climate change policies.
Scotland’s highest civil court has upheld the British government’s move to block a landmark gender-recognition law passed by the Scottish parliament.
A fourth person has died in Britain during a storm that pounded the U.K. and northern Europe with gale-force winds and torrential rain.
Hundreds of people are being evacuated from their homes and schools have closed in parts of Scotland, as much of northern Europe braces for stormy weather, heavy rain and gale-force winds from the east.
Gavi’s winning goal for Spain against Norway in a European Championship qualifier will likely have been cheered as wildly in Glasgow as it was in Madrid.
Scott McTominay has moved ahead of Cristiano Ronaldo and Harry Kane as the joint leading scorer in European Championship qualifying with Scotland on the brink of securing a place at next year’s tournament.
Mystery hunters have converged on a Scottish lake to look for signs of the mythical Loch Ness Monster.
The Loch Ness Centre in Scotland is calling for “budding monster hunters” and volunteers to join in what it dubs the largest search for the Loch Ness Monster since the 1970s.
Nations have resumed talks on tackling global warming with the aim of shaping a deal that might put the world on track to prevent a dangerous increase in temperatures.
Scotland’s new leader says he will follow through with his predecessor's plan to challenge the British government over its decision to block a law that makes it easier for people in Scotland to change their gender on official documents.
New faces have dominated European Championship qualifying as Spain coach Luis de la Fuente swept aside Norway in his first game in charge and a Wales forward rescued a dramatic draw in his first international game.
The race to lead the Scottish National Party has cracked open fissures over political strategy, social issues and the legacy of departing leader Nicola Sturgeon.
A leading rights group has urged the U.S. and Libya to clarify the legality of a surprise extradition of a suspect in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.
Scotland’s leader says she will take the British government to court over its decision to block a law that makes it easier for people in Scotland to change their gender on official documents.
U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has pledged to work constructively with Scotland’s leader despite tensions over her administration’s wish for a new independence referendum.
One of Libya’s rival prime ministers has called for the release of the former Libyan intelligence officer accused of making the bomb that downed Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988, killing all onboard, after he surfaced in U.S. custody earlier this week.
Victoria Cummock’s husband was among the 259 passengers who died after a bomb exploded on Pan Am Flight 103 on Dec. 21, 1988, just north of the England-Scotland border.
The announcement that a Libyan man suspected in the 1988 bombing of a passenger jet has been taken into U.S. custody put the spotlight back on the notorious terrorist attack.
The Justice Department says a Libyan intelligence official accused of making the bomb that brought down Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988 in an international act of terrorism has been taken into U.S. custody and will face federal charges in Washington.
Switzerland has won the biggest prize in women’s team tennis for the first time after Belinda Bencic completed a near-perfect tournament by beating Australia’s Alja Tomljanovic in straight sets in the Billie Jean King Cup final.
Scotland’s leader says she will push on with her campaign to take her country out of the United Kingdom, even if she loses a Supreme Court case seeking the authority for a new independence referendum.
King Charles III and his wife Camilla, the queen consort, have visited Scotland in their first joint public engagement since the royal mourning period to remember Queen Elizabeth II ended.
People waited outside St. Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh for up to six hours Tuesday to pay their respects to the late monarch, whose body will be transferred to London later in the day.
Britain’s new king and queen consort met with members of Parliament Monday at Westminster Hall before traveling back to Scotland to join other members of the royal family for a procession to St. Giles Cathedral, where the queen’s coffin will lie in rest to allow the people of Scotland to pay their respects.
Queen Elizabeth II’s flag-draped coffin has slowly processed through the Scottish countryside on a journey from her beloved Balmoral Castle to the Scottish capital of Edinburgh.
From drought to cyclones and sea level rise, the cost of damage caused by climate change in Africa will only get higher as the world warms, stirring concerns from activists and officials about how to pay for it.
As family members gathered at Balmoral Castle in Scotland to be near Queen Elizabeth II, British and world leaders expressed well-wishes to the 96-year-old monarch and the British royal family.
The former Irish President has called on African nations to pile on the pressure on rich, heavily-polluting countries to fulfill their climate pledges to the continent during a visit to Uganda.
In a first, Buckingham Palace says Queen Elizabeth II will remain in Scotland, where she is taking her summer break, to receive Britain’s outgoing Prime Minster Boris Johnson and his successor next week.
Jessica Korda made three eagles in an 11-under 61 Thursday that equaled a Ladies European Tour record and gave her a five-shot lead after the first round of the Aramco Team Series in Sotogrande, Spain.
