Almost everyone assumed Venus Williams was no longer a professional tennis player. But after more matches this summer than she'd played for ...

JOHN Swinney faces the prospect of a significant grassroots rebellion as he prepares for SNP conference in less than two months’ time.

THE UK civil service forces Scots to classify their qualifications as “other” in job applications, the Sunday National can reveal.

They are also a place where decisions are taken by the membership, which the party leadership is obliged to embrace and enact. Again, in theory. In the case of the SNP’s constitution, the stated norm ...

THE video posted on social media was only 13 seconds long. It showed an encounter between two men, implacable foes. One was Israel’s ...

Hurricane Erin has been named in the US and you might wonder if it will bring a storm to the UK - here's what the Met Office predicts.

Substitute Claudio Braga scored a double as Hearts staged a dramatic comeback from three down to draw 3-3 at home to Motherwell in the William Hill Premiership. Well dominated the first hour and ...

Former Aberdeen striker Bojan Miovski is high on Rangers' agenda as he looks set to be frozen out by Girona, but Chermiti is an alternative option.

RICHARD Holloway, Scotland’s radical former bishop, has been dwelling on the ultimate questions for so long that his new book title ...

ANTI-RACISM activists have launched a counter protest to a demonstration held by a far-right group outside of a hotel in Perth housing asylum seekers ...

AN act which explores life as a trans woman has won the prestigious Best Comedy Show award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Sam Nicoresti’s Baby Doomer show won the Taffner Family best comedy show ...

A Benjamin Nygren double helped Celtic beat Livingston at home today and move seven points clear of Rangers in the William Hill Premiership.