The number of suspensions from schools in England has risen in a year, Government figures show. Data from the Department for Education (DfE) shows there were 295,559 suspensions in the spring term of ...

A judge has been appointed to chair the inquiry into the investigation of the murder of Emma Caldwell. Lord Scott KC, a judge at the Supreme Courts in Scotland, will chair the inquiry, which was ...

China has launched three astronauts into space to replace the crew on the Chinese Tiangong space station, marking a further step in the country’s ambitions for a crewed mission to the Moon and explore ...

A funeral for Pope Francis will be held on Saturday at the Vatican, with the ceremony being covered around the world. More than 22,000 mourners have viewed the body of the 88-year-old, who died on ...

Pope Francis’s doctor found the pontiff with his eyes open and breathing normally, but unresponsive when he was called to the Vatican early on Monday morning, the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera ...

One of the world’s best-selling books has been translated into Gaelic. Moray Watson, a professor of Gaelic and translation at the University of Aberdeen, began working on a Gaelic draft of JRR Tolkien ...