For those still to sit A-levels or Highers, where you live and which school you go to can profoundly influence results day. Time to tell Mum and Dad to move house. It’s a contested field, the...

Mark and Sally Bailey met in an auction house in Pontypridd in south Wales 38 years ago, bidding against each other on the same brass and iron bed. Sally won the bid and convinced Mark to...

The IMF has cut its global economic forecast for 2018 and 2019, citing above all rising import tariffs between the US and China. A fall in trade volumes and manufacturing orders could hit Germany particularly hard....

Jakarta has asked international rescue groups to cease their work on earthquake-ravaged Sulawesi island. Foreigner workers had complained of a lack of access to the affected sites and confusing instructions. The government of Indonesia on Tuesday...

Australia is considering measures to stop some new migrants settling in bigger cities, instead directing them to less populated areas. Canberra is looking for ways to ease congestion in places like Sydney and Melbourne. The Australian...

Thousands of Bulgarians staged commemorations on Monday evening, with the largest crowds turning out in Victoria Marinova’s hometown of Ruse, where she was brutally assaulted and murdered in broad daylight on Saturday. Some of the people...

With the required majority for such changes in parliament still in the balance, Macedonia’s government has launched the legal procedure for adoption of the historic ‘name’ agreement with Greece. At an extraordinary session on Monday, Macedonia’s...

About 5,000 people are still missing, feared death, after an earthquake and tsunami hit Sulawesi just over a week ago. The official death toll stands at 1,944 but officials believe that when casualties from two of...

Taylor Swift has made her first foray into US politics, publicly endorsing two Democrats for the upcoming midterm elections, while aligning herself to fight for LGBTQ rights, gender equity, and an end to the “terrifying, sickening and...

The main political parties in Bosnia rushed to declare victory on Sunday night in Bosnia’s eighth post-war general election – although the Central Election Commission cautioned that it was far too early to confirm such claims....