Shares across Europe rose yesterday amid hopes that most of the continent's 91 top banks will pass EU-mandated 'stress tests'.

The Obama administration wants a review of the decision to release the Libyan convicted in the Lockerbie airliner bombing.

Having hurtled round in 63 the previous day, McIlroy on Friday saw his ambitions strewn across the Old Course in a sadistic revenge.

Limo rental companies and dressmakers are starting to cash in as 'proms' to celebrate the end of primary school take off across Britain.

Gaelic is still widely spoken on the island of Lewis, the northernmost, largest and lowest-lying of the Outer Hebrides.

Launched at the Taste of Edinburgh festival yesterday, Acquamara claims to be the world's first designer sea water.

Top 10-ranked rugby nations Scotland and Fiji will not make another tour of NZ until at least the next decade.

The ash cloud from Iceland's Eyjafjallajokul volcano is still causing havoc for flights across the Atlantic.

Graham Reid finds solitude, beauty and a warm welcome - unless you're a Campbell - at one of Scotland's most infamous sites.

Scottish group Simple Minds return to New Zealand for a show at the Civic in Auckland on March 30.

Despite rave reviews, this band is quite modest.

Britain's one-time youngest ever lottery winner has been found in the isolated bungalow where he lived alone.

Millions of people living in southern England and the Home Counties were told to prepare themselves for up to 40cm of snow last night as Britain remained in the grip of the longest prolonged spell of cold weather for 30 years.

2009 was not a great year for celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay.

Detours restaurant reviewer Peter Calder renews his acquaintance with the "chieftain of the pudding race" and other Scots delicacies.