The Celtic languages spoken today – namely Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Manx, Welsh, Cornish and Breton – all descend from Celtic languages once spoken across Britain and Ireland in antiquity. While the ...

E-sgoil is one of the great successes to emanate from the Western Isles in recent years and Angus Maclennan, who has been awarded an OBE in the New Year’s Honours list, was at its helm from the outset ...

Google parent Alphabet has agreed to buy Intersect Power, a data center and clean energy developer, for $4.75 billion in cash, plus the assumption of the company’s debt. The acquisition, which was ...

Alphabet on Monday announced it will acquire clean energy startup Intersect Power in a deal valued at $4.75 billion, as the Google parent expands its data center output to meet growing demand for AI.

A Scots poultry farm - believed to be one of the biggest in Europe - has reported a bird flu outbreak. Glenrath Farms' Whim Poultry Farm, outside West Linton, near Peebles, Borders, has introduced a ...

In a year when mega-sized technology stocks staged a broad rally, Alphabet GOOGL/GOOG stock was one of the biggest winners. The company’s new Gemini 3 model solidified its standing in the artificial ...

A SUSPECT nicked in Dubai amid Scotland’s raging gang wars has been extradited from the desert state in a landmark moment for Scots crimefighters. Stephen Jamieson, 42, has been returned to Scotland ...

Lee Reynolds, Northern Ireland’s new Ulster Scots commissioner, is a thoughtful and intelligent man. Yet even he is wrestling with the fundamental contradiction of his office: the Ulster Scots ...

COPS rushed to a housing estate in Motherwell earlier today. The nature of the incident is currently unknown. There is a heavy police presence in the residential area, with several officers patrolling ...

Fraser Nelson’s contention that the Scottish Enlightenment came in reaction to a period of Presbyterian theocracy made me scratch my head (Letters, Dec. 10). Recall the Scots’ National Covenant of ...

Alphabet Inc. is set to book another sizable paper gain after SpaceX completes a tender offer that effectively values the closely held company at about $800 billion. SpaceX’s insider share sale was ...

Letter written hours before her execution in 1587 will form part of exhibition and programme of events in Perth aiming to bring queen’s story to life A letter written by Mary, Queen of Scots hours ...