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US PRESIDENT-elect Barack Obama won the Democratic nomination with the enthusiastic support of the left wing of his party, fuelled by his vehement opposition to the decision to invade Iraq and by one of the most liberal voting records in the Senate ...
22 Nov 2008
CONSIDER it the capital – the rebel capital, that is. From the cracked concrete steps of an expropriated government building, Jules Simpeze Banga looked out at a mass of hundreds of freshly displaced people last week and delivered one of his first ...
22 Nov 2008
AT LEAST 600 Scottish babies a year are judged to be at risk of abuse before they are even born, Scotland on Sunday can reveal. Official figures reveal that in the last year, 331 unborn babies were placed on the official child protection register ...
22 Nov 2008
A NEW internet health craze could be putting thousands of people at risk of developing serious, long-term illnesses, scientists warned last night. Online retailers are selling drinks and tablets containing silver nanoparticles, claiming the products ...
22 Nov 2008
CRAWFORD Beveridge, a vice-president of computer networks company Sun Microsystems, and a former chief executive of Scottish Enterprise, is tipped to return home to become the agency's next chairman. It is understood that seven candidates have been ...
22 Nov 2008
SKIPPER Craig Moore provided the inspiration and young gun Tahj Minniecon the spark as Queensland Roar beat Perth Glory 4-1.
23 Nov 2008
Twenty-one years ago Toni Morrison published "Beloved," a slavery tale set in 1855 Cincinnati. Morrison accomplished a rare feat for an American by winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993.
22 Nov 2008
Goals and action shots from today's SPL games.
22 Nov 2008
sadness were just two of the words used by analysts and media watchers last week as Johnston Press's share priced tumbled to a level unthinkable only a few months ago.
22 Nov 2008
Jean-Claude Darcheville claimed his first goal of the season to set the ball rolling on Rangers' win over Aberdeen in the Clydesdale Bank Premier League.
22 Nov 2008
BARCLAYS is to snub Scottish home buyers by refusing to accept Home Reports when they are introduced next month, The Scotsman can exclusively reveal.
21 Nov 2008
Scotsman, United Kingdom - 2 hours ago The release of the film of the best-selling fantasy romance novel will provide new impetus to the biggest publishing phenomenon since Harry Potter. ... Nobody knows anything about vampires ...
22 Nov 2008
The Scotsman Trufill Beverage Dispenser uses a one-of-a-kind cup that fills itself with your chosen beverage in lightning speed. It’s good when you just don’t have the patience to fill up every glass in a party. ...
22 Nov 2008
Scotsman, United Kingdom - 27 minutes ago ... more clever comedy being done by birthday-party clowns and teenagers dressed as Amy Winehouse for Halloween parties than this redemptive rom-com. ...
22 Nov 2008
Scotsman, United Kingdom - 52 minutes ago "The precursor to the lost decade was the 1980s where Japan had its own property market bubble and the subsequent collapse of that destabilised the banking . ...
22 Nov 2008
The Grumpy Scotsman. Because everyone loves a good bitch letter. Saturday, November 22, 2008. What business makes the most during recession times? Liquor stores that's who. Is that any surprise? Probably not. If people are not going to ...
22 Nov 2008
Here’s something I need for the house. The Scotsman Trufill Beverage Dispenser can fill up ten pints in ten seconds. Let me repeat that one for you: TEN.
20 Nov 2008