Eight people were killed and 17 others injured in a stabbing attack at a vocational school in the eastern city of Yixing on Saturday night, local police said. The attack occurred at the Wuxi ...

Mr Musk then used the rest of his post to become the first participant in the public poll he was proposing. He endorsed Howard Lutnick, the chief executive of financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald ...

AYRSHIRE MSP Sharon Dowey has paid a visit to Glennon Brothers UK Ltd sawmill in Troon. The site is one of the largest sawmills in the country, taking in 300,000 tonnes of sawlogs per annum and ...

The Irish president has led tributes to comedian and actor Jon Kenny, who has died at the age of 66. The Limerick actor was best known as one half of the comic duo D’Unbelievables with Pat Shortt. Mr ...

Bea Webster and Benedetta Zanetti both feature in the cast for Mother Goose - the first time two deaf performers will feature in a hearing-led pantomime in Scotland.

Israeli troops captured a strategic hill in the southern Lebanese village of Chamaa, the National News Agency said.

A NUMBER of exciting job vacancies are currently open at NHS Ayrshire and Arran. These include catering assistants and cooks at University Hospital Crosshouse, and a catering assistant at Ayrshire ...

This amazing country house near Ayr which boasts stunning views, is now on the market for offers over £650,000.

A US animal shelter is dealing with a great big problem after a man arrived to hand over what he initially said was 150 mice. However, the donor to the shelter in the state of New Hampshire later ...

(Image: Newsquest) Transport Secretary Alistair Darling visited Prestwick in November 2004 to view progress on the new air traffic control centre being built there. He was accompanied by local ...

Russia’s state-owned natural gas company Gazprom has stopped supplies to Austria, officials said. The Vienna-based utility company OMV confirmed the news after it said it would stop payments for the ...

A man with a "long criminal record" was 'stupidly' caught with a knife inside Ayr Sheriff Court which he claimed he had been using ...