Nicola Sturgeon nominates Scottish Green co-leaders Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater as government ministers

The Islamic Movement in Nigeria says three people have been killed and a dozen injured in police crackdown on Shia mourners.

The highly strategic airbase in north-eastern Scotland has allegedly been involved in yet another interception of Russian military aircraft close to British air space.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has declined an invitation from Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon for a meeting thus underlining the intensifying stand-off between London and Edinburgh over Indyref2.

Drug-related deaths in England and Wales are soaring as experts blame government cuts for counter-addiction services for the deepening crisis.

There are growing calls for the Scottish authorities to investigate a nursery school at the center of Islamophobia allegations.

Former senior diplomat Craig Murray has handed himself in to Edinburgh police to begin an eight-month prison sentence for journalism-related activity.

While the mainstream British media has largely ignored former diplomat Craig Murray's imminent imprisonment by contrast leading activists have leapt to his defense.

The US is reportedly planing to build a spy base either in Scotland or southern England to probe 'deep space' with a view to countering the activities of Russia and China beyond the earth's atmosphere.

The Ministry of Defense has announced a substantial expansion of one of the UK's strategic air bases as part of a broader effort to sabotage the Scottish independence movement.