A sharp rise in children admitted to hospital with throat infections since 1999 could be due to a lack of access to out-of-hours GP care, says a study.

SNP leader Alex Salmond will use his conference address to say that Scotland needs independence to shake off the "austerity agenda" of the UK government.

The small Scottish community of Glenelg will hold a ceremony later to twin itself with its namesake on Mars.

A Iraq-born Canadian citizen should be extradited to the US on charges he was linked to at least two deadly suicide bombings in Iraq, a judge rules.

The UN Security Council says it intends to impose sanctions against leaders of the M23 rebel movement in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Performance poet Benjamin Zephaniah says black and Asian pupils are turned off by history because they are only told "half the story" in British schools.

Two Star Trek fans have tied the knot in a Klingon ceremony at the first official Star Trek convention in the UK for ten years.

Chain-smoking Dot Branning returns to EastEnders in the new year after what is said to be shaping up as "an explosive Christmas".