Thirteen candidates are vying for the presidency in the European Union and Nato member country with the vote expected to go to a second round.

Uruguayans will return to the polls on Sunday for a second round of voting to choose their next president. The conservative governing party and the left-leaning coalition are locked in a close run-off ...

THE First Minister is set to “lay out his vision for Scotland” in an upcoming St Andrew’s Day speech. John Swinney is due to give a speech to representatives from organisations across the public and ...

Energy Secretary Ed Miliband has called a financial package for developing nations a “critical 11th-hour deal at the 11th hour for the climate” as the United Nations environmental conference drew to a ...

Last year, Mike received a Christmas card from a Help for Heroes supporter. It was part of the charity’s campaign encouraging people to send a message of hope to isolated veterans – and it made a ...

A LOWLANDS laird has redistributed more land than the Scottish Government since its creation and current efforts on land reform are doomed ...

SECRETARY of State for Work and Pensions Liz Kendall is set to appear on Laura Kuenssberg's Sunday morning politics show. She will be joined by Shadow Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and ...

WE are nearly five months into this Labour Government – elected after 14 years of Tory government mired in scandal, division and failure which the public were desperate to see the back of. Why then ...

I WAS tidying old papers when I came to a faded “1979” folder. Remember what a bad year that was, for those who believed in a self-governing Scotland? In March, a referendum for a “Scottish Assembly”, ...

IT would be safe to say the European Parliament hearings of the EU commissioners-designate have not generated many headlines this side of the North Sea, or indeed anywhere outside the EU Brussels ...

Jordan Cox has emerged as an injury doubt ahead of his planned Test debut against New Zealand next week, after sustaining a hand injury in the nets. With Jamie Smith back home awaiting the birth of ...

More than 200 flood alerts are in place for England and Wales, and the Met Office has issued yellow warnings for rain and wind.