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Permanent and temporary job placements rose across the country last month, a Bank of Scotland report suggests.

Google reveals it deleted about 640 videos that allegedly promoted terrorism after a request from the UK's police.

VisitScotland is launching its biggest ever global tourism campaign as First Minister Alex Salmond attends the release of the new Disney film Brave.

Leaders of three teachers' unions have written to MPs urging a rethink of the phonics checks for six-year olds due to start in schools.

Researchers say that increasing levels of fatness around the world could have the same impact on global resources as an extra billion people.

Tottenham make contact with representatives of ex-Chelsea boss Andre Villas-Boas as they search for a new manager.

LONDON (AP) -- International Olympic officials have opened a high-level investigation into allegations that authorized representatives in more than 50 countries - including a national Olympic committee - were involved in selling London Olympics tickets on the black market for profit....

LONDON (AP) -- International Olympic officials have opened a high-level investigation into allegations that authorized representatives in more than 50 countries - including a national Olympic committee - were involved in selling London Olympics tickets on the black market for profit....

LONDON (AP) -- International Olympic officials have opened a high-level investigation into allegations that authorized representatives in more than 50 countries - including a national Olympic committee - were involved in selling London Olympics tickets on the black market for profit....

Twenty years later, Rodney King's simple yet profound question still lingers, from the street where Trayvon Martin died all the way to the White House:...

The head of UN observers in Syria demands that warring parties allow the evacuation of women, children and injured people from conflict zones.

China's Shenzhou-9 capsule, carrying the nation's first female astronaut, links up with the Tiangong-1 space lab.

PHOENIX — Police agencies that would enforce the most controversial part of Arizona's 2010 immigration law are expected to get squeezed by legal challenges from opposite sides if the U.S. Supreme Court upholds the law in the coming days.

Opponents of the Arizona law, known as S.B. 1070, are likely ...

DENVER — Crews in northern Colorado are facing powerful winds as they battle a blaze that has scorched about 86 square miles of mountainous forest land and destroyed at least 181 homes, the most in state history.

Meanwhile, local authorities are focusing on another concern looting.

The destructiveness of the ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A shallow avalanche on Alaska's Mount McKinley may not have killed four Japanese climbers, but the slide pushed them into a crevasse more than 100 feet deep and beyond the reach of any possible rescue, the National Park Service said Sunday.

Spokeswoman Kris Fister said Sunday that ...

PARIS (AP) -- Francois Hollande is the man in charge after his Socialist Party swept France's parliamentary election. Voters welcomed the French president's vision of injecting government money into Europe's economies in hopes of helping the joint euro currency stave off disaster....

PARIS (AP) -- Francois Hollande is the man in charge after his Socialist Party swept France's parliamentary election. Voters welcomed the French president's vision of injecting government money into Europe's economies in hopes of helping the joint euro currency stave off disaster....

PARIS (AP) -- Francois Hollande is the man in charge after his Socialist Party swept France's parliamentary election. Voters welcomed the French president's vision of injecting government money into Europe's economies in hopes of helping the joint euro currency stave off disaster....

"Serious weaknesses" in England's care system have been revealed by a report which found children's homes failed to protect runaways, ministers say.

LOS CABOS, Mexico (AP) -- Finger-length and emerald-green, the lawns of time-share condos and all-inclusive resorts seem to gleam in the bright sun as the surf rolls gently against the white-sand beaches of Los Cabos. Sometimes the only noise is the ruffling of palm fronds in the languid ocean breeze....