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Scotland has the highest rate of drugs deaths in Europe, with fatalities rising by 12% in a year to 1,172 drug-related deaths in 2023.

The Scottish Retail Consortium said 2024 on the whole, however, was a ‘tepid’ year for sales in Scotland.

The club’s new owners the Friedkin Group look set to bring back David Moyes.

Authorities say the man who traveled armed to a pizzeria in the nation's capital nearly a decade ago because of a fake online conspiracy theory has been shot and killed by police in North Carolina

The offer is good for six rides in both the U.S. and Canada with a maximum of $20 per ride

New York City will spend $650 million over the next five years to combat homelessness and mental illness, while increasing the number of police officers in the subway system

It’s difficult to save things when ‘you’re running for you life,’ said champion swimmer

The Conservatives have described Labour’s proposals on schools as ‘educational vandalism’.

As fires raged from the seaside enclave of Pacific Palisades to the hillsides above Pasadena — with at least five dead and thousands of homes and other buildings leveled or damaged — residents accustomed to radiant sunshine and balmy weather reckoned with an unsettling reality