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After years out in the cold, the Iranians have a chance to be heard in the West – and they’ve got Saudi Arabia on their minds.
As Glasgow’s most famous tower blocks are razed, we’re again being asked to celebrate destruction of old notions of housing provision. We should treat it as a different opportunity entirely.
This week, NASA has discovered great similarities between the Earth and Mars and Pluto. But when it comes to the potential for life, Mars is an increasingly hot favourite.
Pluto’s moon Charon seems to have had a violent past, with icy volcanoes leaving huge fractures.
The latest version of Macbeth is stunningly cinematic and vehemently Scottish.
In his hostility towards refugees, Hungary’s prime minister has forgotten that nearly 2,000 years ago, Syrians lived on the land that now makes up his country.
Berlin recently agreed to curb the number of migrants it welcomed after a backlash against Angela Merkel’s suspension of EU rules limiting numbers. It followed previous scenes of crowds welcoming new arrivals…
De l’eau sur Mars ? Encore ? Mission après mission, les scientifiques accumulent les indices d’eau sur la planète rouge. La dernière découverte annoncée par la Nasa apporte de nouveaux éléments.
Rocketing rents? Fierce protests against housing policies against the interests of the poor? Cereal Killer attacks have many predecessors - particularly Glasgow in 1915.
New research suggests that salty water exists on Mars in the summer months. But that wouldn’t be the first time we hear of water on the red planet. So what’s new and what isn’t?
Research shows that family has an important role in getting children to play sport and nowhere is this better demonstrated than in the Rugby World Cup.
Cyber criminals have found a way to harvest data from iPhones and iPads using the weak point in Apple’s otherwise top security system - app developers.
Rosetta has finally shed light on the origin of both ice and jets on comet 67P. It will now head closer to the sun to look at the comet’s interactions with the solar wind.
The UK government has proposed to extend the remit of Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) to cover other emergency services, including fire and rescue. The system has been called a “failed experiment…
How Labour’s ‘radical’ shadow chancellor might deal with another down-cycle, Brexit, immigration and an energy crunch.
From a mysterious haze to strange nitrogen snowfall, the latest pictures of Pluto pose many new questions.
Twelve months on from the vote on Scottish independence, there are no signs of constitutional healing - nor elsewhere in the UK.
Things are going from bad to worse in Turkey. Why – and where will it end?
This year’s Ibiza Prom was a convenient target for those unhappy with the expanded remit of the Proms – but an unfounded one.
The poor air quality at major sporting events can have a damaging affect on athletes’ performance and health.


















