THIS is proof that the surge has started. The blitz into southern Helmand is Nato is flexing its newly arrived US muscles.

FAMILY law experts said yesterday the Radmacher case will have little impact on the way Scotland's courts view pre-nuptial agreements, arguing that the ruling shows Englan

ONE flicker of hope in the darkest hour for Scotland's banks earlier this year was that a new era and a new culture would emerge from the ruins.

CONSIDER the case of two iconic drinks brands and the conglomerate that owns them - Guinness and Johnnie Walker, both made by Diageo.

THE Scottish Government published a report on 20 June about the state of the Scots language and announced it was setting up a working party under culture minister Michael Ru

Apple's iPhone looks good enough to eat. I've yet to take a bite of this "smart" phone, but know that once I do, there will be no going back; I'll be reaching for it before I get out of bed

The captains of the newspaper industry, martyrs all, claim they were heroically serving democracy to their utmost, only to be undone by a cataclysmic shift in technology and the arrival of all things web-based. Partisans of new media, weblogs and

SCOTTISH ministers were accused yesterday of "taking their eye off the ball" over the expected closure of the Johnnie Walker plant whisky plant with the loss of 700 jo

A SENIOR Cabinet minister yesterday denied Gordon Brown's administration was losing the authority to govern after a series of reverses over the Royal Mail, ID cards and t

WESTMINSTER'S sleaze watchdog is to investigate a complaint that shadow chancellor George Osborne overclaimed on his MP's allowances for his constituency home.

AN AGREEMENT to be signed within weeks will help ensure defence work for the Clyde for the next 15 years, Scottish Secretary Jim Murphy has claimed.

BIRDS of prey have been brought in to scare away pigeons that have plagued the Scottish Parliament.

Oppositional Party of Regions' leader Viktor Yanukovych has called on politicians for unification. While staying in Luhansk Thursday, he said: "I am calling on my supporters against fighting with representatives of other political forces. The time has come to unite

The monument to Lenin, that has been recently damaged, will be dismantled, MIGnews reported. "Lenin will be dismantled while repairing and then Cabinet will seal fate, because it is the place of interest on the national level. The monument has

Gross domestic production in Ukraine, one of the world's most recession-battered economies, contracted by 20 per cent in the first quarter of 2009, according to official government figures released on June 30. After months of delay, the figures were released

President Victor Yushchenko held phone conversation with the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Sweden Fredrik Reinfeldt, president's press office reported. President Yushchenko congratulated Prime Minister Reinfeldt on the beginning of Sweden's presidency over the European Union. The President praised

The Turtle Day will be celebrated in Kyiv zoo on Saturday, July 4, Unian reported. The action takes place six years running and it is dedicated to support of the single species of the turtles, which live in Ukraine in