EFFORTS to overhaul Royal Mail must be accompanied by better working conditions for staff and improved service reliability, the Communication Workers Union (CWU) warned today.

Taking their case to the Court of Session in Edinburgh, Greenpeace and Uplift argued that the effects of downstream burning of fuel extracted from the Rosebank oil field, north-west of Shetland, and ...

THE Syrian factions that toppled President Bashar al-Assad last month named jihadist leader Ahmad al-Sharaa as the country’s interim president on Wednesday. The appointment of Mr Sharaa as Syria’s ...

AN IRAQI man who carried out several Koran burnings in Sweden has died, a judge in Stockholm said today. Swedish media reported that he was killed in a shooting in the nearby city of Sodertalje.