The "best train journeys" in Scotland for 2025 have been named. Luxury services and scenic routes are among the train journeys that were singled out. Travel experts at Condé Nast Traveller recently rounded up the best train journeys throughout the UK. Out of the 17 routes featured on the roundup, five are located in Scotland.

President Donald Trump arrived in Scotland on Friday evening ready for a four day stay in the country. He is spending the weekend at his Turnberry golf course, before heading to his second course in Aberdeen. During his say, he has confirmed meeting with Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Scotland’s First Minister John Swinney.

An inquiry into the University of Edinburgh has found it played an outsized role in the creation of racist pseudoscience and greatly profited

U.S. President Donald Trump, dogged by questions about his ties to disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, arrived in Scotland on Friday for some golf and bilateral talks that could yield a trade deal with the European Union.

There have been high-profile UFO sightings elsewhere in the UK, of course, and Dr Miller does not believe Scotland in itself is a particular hotspot. But it does have its own distinctive history, he argued, and one which plays into wider narratives such as deindustrialisation.

A man has been treated in hospital after reports of a gun being fired in Edinburgh. Police Scotland said officers were called to Hailesland Gardens in the Wester Hailes area at about 15:40. A 23-year-old man was treated in hospital for injuries to his arm but they are not thought to be life-threatening. No-one else was injured.

Despite Trump's best efforts to distract the world away from the Epstein files, some of his most loyal supporters in Washington are starting to look ahead to the possibility of a third impeachment