A near death in the unforgiving desert
Scotsman journalist Emma Cowing almost lost her life in the searing heat of Afghanistan. Her ordeal exposed an unwritten danger facing our troops. Here she tells her story

Brown set to ditch key economic rule as UK borrowing soars
GORDON Brown has been accused of gambling his reputation for economic prudence by plotting to ditch one of his key fiscal rules as the UK borrowing level reached a record hig

A common sight on the roads this summer … and it's only going to get worse
THEY are the vehicles that motorists either love or hate – depending on whether they are ahead of, or behind, their cars.

Glasgow East by-election: Abortion and embryo controversies back in spotlight for final days of campaign
CATHOLIC churches are alerting parishioners to the views of the Glasgow East by-election candidates on abortion and embryo research days before they go to the polls.

Fringe chiefs stage crisis talks as ticket system chaos hits 150,000
CRISIS talks were held yesterday by Fringe organisers after box office glitches meant up to 150,000 festival-goers were still awaiting tickets with only two weeks to go.

How post-natal depression led to a mother's lonely death
KATE Chetwynd seemed to have everything to live for, with a newborn child and a loving family around her.

Invading grey squirrels face mass cull in drive to save native reds
THE battlelines have been drawn and the war is about to start to protect one of Scotland's most threatened native animals – the red squirrel.

Lennox: Africa's Aids crisis 'similar to horror of Nazi concentration camps'
ANNIE Lennox, the Scots-born rock star, has launched an outspoken attack on the South African government over its response to the HIV/Aids pandemic in southern Africa, a cr

'Shadow' man guilty of his wife's murder
A FORMER accountant who stabbed his wife 86 times at the family home has been found guilty of murder.

Fake-death canoeist's wife tells court: 'I didn't want the money. Money was not important to me'
THE wife of the back-from-the-dead canoeist John Darwin told jurors yesterday that she did not want a £250,000 life insurance pay-out and "money was not important" to