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Vast amounts of ice is melting into the sea and having a major effect on global ocean currents (Picture: Mathilde Bellenger/AFP via Getty Images)

Antarctic meltwater is slowing currents that drive vital ocean ‘overturning’

Workers thin trees in an apple orchard.

Scottish businesses look further afield to recruit workers amid staffing crisis

Melting ice is dumping vast amounts of freshwater in the oceans, disrupting global currents which have a huge effect on the climate (Picture: Odd Andersen/AFP via Getty Images)

Collapse of ocean currents would be a global catastrophe – Scotsman comment

Despite advances in obstetric medicine, pregnancy and childbirth remain significant health risks to women (Picture: David Jones/PA)

Surrogacy is morally wrong, reducing poor women to incubators for the rich

Oscar Pistorius leaves the High Court in Pretoria, South Africa, Tuesday June 14, 2016. A South African parole board is to consider whether former Paralympics star and convicted murderer Oscar Pistorius can be released from jail.

Former Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius denied parole

Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin's government applied to join Nato last year.

Finland to become 31st member of Nato after Turkish parliament lifts block

It becomes the first ever criminal case against a former US president

Donald Trump expected to surrender next week following indictment

Gwyneth Paltrow cleared of all fault in high-profile US skiing collision lawsuit

Antibiotics have historically been easily available in Romania.

The European country trying to stop its citizens from taking daily antibiotics

Hundreds attend vigil for Nashville school shooting victims

If there's a virtue-signalling message you want to send, there's probably a suitable emoji but how much good will it actually do? (Picture: Tengku Bahar/AFP via Getty Images)

Virtue-signalling hashtags just send a message that you don't really care

In this photograph from May last year, Matiullah Wesa, head of PenPath and advocate for girls' education in Afghanistan, speaks to children during a class next to his mobile library in Spin Boldak district of Kandahar Province.

Afghan campaigner for women’s education detained by Taliban

Firefighters and police rescue migrants from an immigration station in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state on March 27, 2023, where at least 39 people were killed and dozens injured after a fire at the immigration station. (Photo by HERIKA MARTINEZ/AFP via Getty Images)

Dozens of migrants killed in fire at Mexican detention centre

A man drops flowers to a makeshift memorial where baloons and Teddy bears are left on the outside the Covenant School building at the Covenant Presbyterian Church, in Nashville, Tennessee, March 27. -(Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Three children and three adults killed in Nashville elementary school shooting

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi shake hands in Tehran in July last year (Picture: Sergei Savostyanov/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images)

If ICC can issue arrest warrant for Putin, it can do so for Iran’s brutal regime

Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu leaves 10 Downing Street after meeting Britain's Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak.

Israel’s prime minister should not allow company he keeps to affect decisions

Maksym Galinichev, pictured here boxing Abdessamad Abbaz of Morocco in the Men's Bantam semi final at the Buenos Aires 2018 Youth Olympic Games, has been killed in combat.

Boxing champion killed fighting in Ukrainian military

Twitter has been in turmoil since the platform was taken over by Tesla head Elon Musk.

Twitter source code leaked online

The Scottish local authority has been embroiled in legal action against the sportswear giant, Under Armour, and its founder, Kevin Plank, since 2017. Picture: Molly Riley/UPI/Shutterstock

Scots council goes to court to obtain US journalist's emails

The world's largest airliner landing at Glasgow Airport for the first time since September 2019. Picture: Chris James/PA Wire

World’s largest airliner returns to Glasgow for first time since 2019

Aerial view of a destroyed neighbourhood in Rolling Fork, Mississippi, after a tornado touched down in the area. Picture: Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images

Joe Biden issues emergency declaration in wake of deadly US tornado

BEVERLY HILLS, CA - FEBRUARY 24: Rupert Murdoch (L) and Jerry Hall attend the 2019 Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted by Radhika Jones at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on February 24, 2019 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images)

Age gap relationships aren't for me - Gaby Soutar

This image obtained from the Mississippi Highway Patrol, Troop D, shows a damaged home near Silver City, Mississippi, after a tornado touched down in the area (Photo by HANDOUT/Mississippi Highway Patrol /AFP via Getty Images)

Mississippi tornadoes: ‘my city is gone’ says mayor as 23 killed

A flag featuring former President Donald Trump that supporters are flying near his Mar-a-Lago home (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Donald Trump at Waco: rally by Donald Trump on anniversary of massacre

Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson finished fourth in the World Figure Skating Championships in Japan.

Fourth place world championship finish for Scottish ice dancer Lewis Gibson

TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testifies before the House Energy and Commerce Committee in Washington, DC. The hearing was a rare opportunity for lawmakers to question the leader of the short-form social media video app about the company's relationship with its Chinese owner, ByteDance, and how they handle users' sensitive personal data.

Is this the end of TikTok in the West?

Servicemen from the The Royal Regiment of Scotland who helped carry the Queen's coffin at her lying-in-rest in Edinburgh have been awarded the Royal Victorian Medal (Silver), which recognises distinguished personal service to the monarch in the Queen's demise honours list. Picture: Alkis Konstantinidis/PA Wire

Queen Elizabeth II's Scottish pallbearers honoured in special list

The burnt door of Bordeaux's city hall, is pictured the day after it was set on fire by demonstrators during a rally against pension reform.

Why King Charles visit needed to be cancelled as France focuses on own problems

The King's state visit to France, the first of his reign, has been postponed, the French Presidency said, amid protests in the country over retirement age reforms. Issue date: Friday March 24, 2023.

King’s state visit to France postponed amid widespread retirement age protests

Actress Gwyneth Paltrow sits in court in Park City, Utah. Terry Sanderson is suing the actress for $300,000, claiming she recklessly crashed into him while the two were skiing on a beginner run at Deer Valley Resort in 2016.

Why did Gwyneth Paltrow offer ‘treats’ to courtroom staff?

French French Republican Security Corps (CRS - Compagnies Republicaines de Securite) police officers in riot gear operate during a demonstration, with a smoke rising in the background, a week after the government pushed a pensions reform through parliament without a vote, using the article 49.3 of the constitution. (Photo by PHILIPPE LOPEZ/AFP via Getty Images)

France pension protests escalate ahead of King Charles visit

Supporters have protested against the possibility of Donald Trump being arrested over the Stormy Daniels scandal.

Trump lawyer told to hand over documents to prosecutors

Canada's population grew by over a million in a year.

Canada’s population grow by one million in a year for first time in history

A statue of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is toppled at al-Fardous Square in Baghdad, Iraq, in April 2003 (Picture: Wathiq Khuzaie/Getty Images)

For many countries, the Iraq War is a lasting reminder of western hypocrisy

The epicentre of the earthquake is believed to be in Afghanistan.

Earthquake measuring 6.5 hits Afghanistan and Pakistan

Supporters fly a flag featuring Donald Trump near his Mar-a-Lago home after the former president called on his supporters to protest a possible arrest and indictment. Picture: Getty Images

Could former US president Donald Trump be arrested this week?

Tourists feed seagulls in front of the Presidential palace in Helsinki, Finland. The country was named the happiest nation in the world for the sixth year in a row.

What are the world's happiest countries in 2023?

Home Secretary Suella Braverman laughs as she tours a building site on the outskirts of Kigali, Rwanda, where deported migrants are planned to be housed (Picture: Stefan Rousseau/PA)

Braverman's laughter at Rwandan 'internment' camp was shocking – Angus Robertson

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, shakes hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin prior to their talks at the Kremlin in Moscow on Monday, March 20, 2023. (Shen Hong/Xinhua via AP)

Xi Jinping stresses close ties with ‘dear friend’ Vladimir Putin

Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with China's President Xi Jinping at the Kremlin in Moscow on Monday. Picture: Sergei Karpuhkin/AFP via Getty Images)

What image is Vladimir Putin trying to portray from PR drive?

Floods in low-lying Bangladesh are getting worse as sea levels rise because of global warming (Picture: Mamun Hossain/AFP via Getty Images)

Climate change is a disease of the here and now – Scotsman comment

Migrants are escorted ashore from the UK Border Force vessel 'BF Ranger' in Dover, southeast England.

Private companies see profits soar as UK Government increases asylum hotels

Ice hockey fans celebrate in Helsinki, after Finland's team won the Winter Olympic Games gold medal last year (Picture: Antti Aimo-Koivisto/Lehtikuva/AFP via Getty Images)

World Happiness Report contains a lesson about the benefits of social democracy

A Somali woman and child wait to be given a spot to settle at a camp for displaced people on the outskirts of Dollow in Somalia during the longest drought in the country's history, estimated to have killed 43,000 people

Climate change: IPCC report is ‘survival guide for humanity’

The Australian soldier served in Afghanistan eleven years ago.

Australian soldier first to be tried as war criminal

The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin because of his actions in Ukraine.

Arrest warrant for Putin for war crimes in Ukraine welcomed in UK and US

Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) and Chinese President Xi Jinping pose during their meeting in Beijing, on February 4, 2022. (Photo by Alexei Druzhinin / Sputnik / AFP) (Photo by ALEXEI DRUZHININ/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images)

What will Chinese leader Xi Jinping's visit to Russia mean for Ukraine?

Angus Robertson was speaking at a cnference in Aberdeen.

Boost for rural Scotland through partnerships with ‘Arctic neighbours’

Heavy rain and flooding has caused serious damage to roads and other vital infrastructure in Malawi (Picture: Amos Gumulira/AFP via Getty Images)

Deadly cyclone sees Malawi pay high price for our fossil fuel habit

People gather in Kyiv next to candles that are put in order to depict the word 'Children' during a memorial event on the anniversary of the Mariupol Theater Airstrike. Picture: Roman Pilipey/Getty Images

Seven-year-old girl flown to Kyiv from Aberdeenshire for NHS treatment

Russian president Vladimir Putin speaks to China's president Xi Jinping during the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation (SCO) leaders' summit in Samarkand last September. Picture: SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images

Chinese leader Xi Jinping to make state visit to Moscow

Archippus Sturrock and French President Emmanuel Macron shake hands at the Franco-British Summit at the Élysée Palace in Paris (Picture: Helene Ba)

Auld Alliance with France can help rebuild the good relations damaged by Brexit

Nathan Evans' TikTok hit Wellerman showed how wonderful the social media app can be (Picture: Jo Hanley)

Ministerial TikTok ban shows how democratic world is turning away from China

Mourners arrive for a mass funeral procession for mudslide victims at Chilobwe townships Naotcha Primary school camp in Blantyre, Malawi earlier this week.

Fears of cholera outbreak as Malawi cyclone death toll rises

TikTok has been banned from UK Government phones.

Call for clarity over use of Chinese-owned TikTok on Scottish Government phones

A vehicle drives along a dune in the Sabha district, in southwestern Libya, which is believed to be close to the site where the missing uranium has disappeared from.

UN watchdog: 2.5 tonnes of uranium missing from site in southern Libya

The US military have stated in the past that there has been a "pattern of dangerous actions by Russian pilots"

Watch: US release footage of Russian jet crashing into drone over Black Sea

Moldovan MP Marina Tauber attends a protest she organised on behalf of the pro-Moscow opposition Shor party in the country's capital Chisinau on Sunday (Picture: Daniel Mihailescu/AFP via Getty Images)

Moldova could be first domino in Russian plan for neighbourhood destabilisation

A U.S. MQ-9 drone is on display during an air show at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2018 .A Russian fighter jet downed a US drone operating over the Black Sea on Tuesday, with each nation blaming the other, and tensions heightened around the incident. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini, File)

Russian fighter jet collides with US drone - Everything you need to know

Internally displaced girls walk beside the flood waters near a makeshift camp in the flood-hit area of Dera Allah Yar in Jaffarabad district of Balochistan province, months after Pakistan was hit with devastating flooding. Picture: AFP via Getty Images

Scottish funding boost for girls' education in flood-hit Pakistan

Afghan boys sit outside newly built houses constructed by the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) in Barmal district, Paktika province, following humanitarian work. Picture: AFP via Getty Images

UNHCR calls for funding to support millions of Afghan refugees

Port Lockroy has been known as a safe anchorage following its use by the whaling fleets of the early 20th century and was selected for the first continuously occupied British base to establish year round British presence in Antarctica.

Hardy individuals wanted to count penguins in the Antarctic

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Humza Yousaf speaking at Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh, after it was announced that he is the new Scottish National Party leader, and would become the next First Minister of Scotland. Picture date: Monday March 27, 2023.

SNP set to lose 18 seats to Labour at next election in worrying poll for Yousaf

Brace yourselves, the next two years could make or break the political careers of both Humza Yousaf and Anas Sarwar.

Squeaky bum time already for Humza Yousaf as poll demonstrates challenge ahead

Boxer Ken Buchanan, who is widely considered as Scotland's greatest fighter, has died aged 77. He is pictured here in 1965.

Scottish boxing legend and 'gentleman' Ken Buchanan dies at 77