Donald Rumsfeld had the chance when he was U.S. defense secretary in December 2001 to make sure Osama bin Laden was killed or captured, but let him slip through his hands, a Senate report has found.The report by the Senate

Iran approved plans Sunday to build 10 new uranium enrichmentfacilities, a dramatic expansion in defiance of the U.N. nuclearwatchdog, days after it demanded Tehran stop construction on one plantand halt all enrichment activities.Iran'sdefiance will likely heighten tensions with the West,

The United Arab Emirates central bank on Sunday said that it stoodbehind domestic and foreign banks operating in Dubai after last week’sannouncement that Dubai World needed more time to pay back some of its$60 billion in debt.Dubai surprised the financial

Then British attorney general's hitherto unpublished letter, writteneight months before the invasion of Iraq, given to Chilcot inquiry intoIraq war.British prime minister Tony Blair was told by his government's most senior legal adviser that an invasion of Iraq to topple

A gunman burst into a coffeehouse Sunday and opened fire on fourpolice officers as they sat working on their laptops, killing the threemen and one woman in what an official described as a targeted ambush.PierceCounty Sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer said

Golfer Tiger Woods said on Sunday that the car accident that sent him to the hospitalearly Friday morning was his fault and †has become embarrassing†to himand his family. †I’m human and I’m not perfect,†he said in

SUSAN Boyle made chart history yesterday by soaring straight to No 1, with her album selling more than 410,000 copies - the best first week's sale for a debut release sinc

SNP ministers are considering taking responsibility for social care for the elderly away from local authorities and handing it to the NHS.

A LEADING cancer charity has called for legislation banning children from using sunbeds to be rolled out across the UK.

ALEX Salmond will today claim that the only chance for constitutional change in Scotland will be for politicians in Holyrood to back his party's independence referendum b

TWO former Labour health ministers have fiercely criticised their party's leadership in Scotland for opposing the introduction of minimum pricing for alcohol.

THE UK Government yesterday welcomed Rwanda as the newest member of the Commonwealth.

PUPILS are being forced to drop out of Higher exams because teachers are under pressure to maintain pass rates, a senior academic has claimed.

THE culminating event of St Andrew's Day/Night/Weekend - held in the atmospheric, chilly moonlit grounds of the cathedral and St Mary's Quad in St Andrews - was powe

SCOTS author Iain Banks has joined MPs and church leaders in accusing the government of failing to push banks to adopt ethical investments.

GORDON Brown sent a tough challenge to Pakistan yesterday to step up action against the al-Qaeda terror network and "take out" its leaders, Osama bin Laden and Ayman Z

SCOTTISH Conservatives have dismissed calls to break away from the UK party and reinvent themselves as a Scotland-only body.

AN INFLUENTIAL Commons committee has thrown its weight behind calls from Holyrood that asylum-seekers' children should not be locked up.

A FORMER aide to a Holyrood minister could face legal action after he used the internet to attempt to smear political rivals.