The Edinburgh Zoo has launched a cuteness contest between Haggis, its newborn pygmy hippo, and Moo Deng, the adorable mini hippopotamus that became a viral sensation at a Thailand zoo this summer.

Brazilian police official Valdecy Urquiza will be the next chief of the global police organization Interpol.

A ban on protesting outside abortion clinics has gone into effect in England and Wales.

Cristiano Ronaldo has scored his record-extending 133rd international goal to keep Portugal perfect in the Nations League with a 3-1 win over Poland while Spain struck late to edge Denmark 1-0.

Scotland's former first minister Alex Salmond has died at age 69.

International soccer returned to Europe over the past week less than two months after the conclusion of Euro 2024.

Cristiano Ronaldo is showing just why Portugal is persisting with him at the age of 39.

Lydia Ko has captured her third major title and first in eight years by winning the Women’s British Open by two strokes at the home of golf at St. Andrews.

Two-time champion Jiyai Shin has capitalized on a back-nine collapse by top-ranked Nelly Korda to take a one-shot lead after the third round of the Women’s British Open at St. Andrews.

Charley Hull rolled in a 6-foot putt on No. 18 for the last of her six birdies to shoot 5-under 67 and take a one-stroke lead after the first round of the Women's British Open.

Researchers are one step closer to understanding how Stonehenge was created.

Billy Horschel, who tied for second at last week’s British Open after holding the 54-hole lead, withdrew from the 3M Open on Thursday morning due to illness.

Justin Rose needed a long putt for par on the 12th hole at Royal Troon to keep pace with Xander Schauffele.

Tiger Woods had another disappointing round at a major championship.

Playing great golf helps at the British Open.

The final men's major of the year is the oldest championship in golf.

The British Open is raising its prize money, but not by much.

Yaroslava Mahuchikh of Ukraine has set a world record in the women’s high jump at a Diamond League track and field meeting in Paris.

A dramatic stoppage-time goal saw Hungary beat Scotland 1-0 at the European Championship to dash its opponent’s hopes of reaching the knockout stage of a major tournament for the first time in its history.

Hungary forward Barnabás Varga is in hospital in stable condition after a serious-looking injury at his team’s final group match at the European Championship.

Host Germany has opened the European Championship with a confidence-boosting 5-1 win over 10-man Scotland in Munich.

The start of the women’s European Championship qualifier between Scotland and Israel was delayed after a protestor got onto the field at Hampden Park and chained himself to a goalpost.

Britain’s political party leaders are crisscrossing the country on the first day of a six-week election campaign.

A former head of the Scottish National Party is expected to be Scotland's next leader.

Scotland’s first minister, Humza Yousaf, has resigned.

Scotland’s leader has insisted that he won’t be resigning amid the fallout of his decision to pull the plug on a three-year power-sharing agreement that has made his Scottish National Party a minority government.

Scotland’s leader is facing a potential battle for survival after ending a three-year power-sharing agreement with the Scottish Green Party following a clash over climate change policies.

A bear rescued from a bombed-out zoo in Ukraine has arrived at his new home in Scotland.

Scotland’s highest civil court has upheld the British government’s move to block a landmark gender-recognition law passed by the Scottish parliament.

Author Sarah Bernstein has won the Scotiabank Giller Prize for her novel “Study for Obedience.”.

A fourth person has died in Britain during a storm that pounded the U.K. and northern Europe with gale-force winds and torrential rain.

Hundreds of people are being evacuated from their homes and schools have closed in parts of Scotland, as much of northern Europe braces for stormy weather, heavy rain and gale-force winds from the east.

Gavi’s winning goal for Spain against Norway in a European Championship qualifier will likely have been cheered as wildly in Glasgow as it was in Madrid.

Scott McTominay has moved ahead of Cristiano Ronaldo and Harry Kane as the joint leading scorer in European Championship qualifying with Scotland on the brink of securing a place at next year’s tournament.

Gordon Sargent has lived up to his billing as golf's No. 1 amateur.

Mystery hunters have converged on a Scottish lake to look for signs of the mythical Loch Ness Monster.

The Loch Ness Centre in Scotland is calling for “budding monster hunters” and volunteers to join in what it dubs the largest search for the Loch Ness Monster since the 1970s.

Hello! My name is Himali Wickramasinghe, and I was selected to be part of KPRC 2+’s Best Summer Ever series! I recently took a trip to the United Kingdom, and I was interviewed to talk about my trip.

A pod of 55 pilot whales have died after they were found washed ashore on a beach in Scotland.

Rory McIlroy is coming off a two-week break and sure doesn't look to have much rust.

Padraig Harrington is not ruling out his chances of playing in another Ryder Cup.

Byeong “Ben” Hun An doesn't have a spot in the British Open next week.

Rory McIlroy is laughing off a Saudi-backed idea that he and Tiger Woods own LIV Golf teams.

It was Scotland on parade.

Nations have resumed talks on tackling global warming with the aim of shaping a deal that might put the world on track to prevent a dangerous increase in temperatures.

Former U.S. President Donald Trump has traveled to Scotland to open a new golf course at his resort near Aberdeen.

Scotland’s new leader says he will follow through with his predecessor's plan to challenge the British government over its decision to block a law that makes it easier for people in Scotland to change their gender on official documents.

The Luis de la Fuente era in Spain is already being questioned after only two games.

Scottish lawmakers have confirmed Humza Yousaf as the country's first minister.

Scotland’s governing Scottish National Party has elected Humza Yousaf as its new leader.

New faces have dominated European Championship qualifying as Spain coach Luis de la Fuente swept aside Norway in his first game in charge and a Wales forward rescued a dramatic draw in his first international game.

Emergency workers say 25 people have been injured after a large ship in a dry dock in Scotland tipped over.

The race to lead the Scottish National Party has cracked open fissures over political strategy, social issues and the legacy of departing leader Nicola Sturgeon.

Scotland’s independence movement needs a new leader — and a new plan.

Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced her intention to resign.

A leading rights group has urged the U.S. and Libya to clarify the legality of a surprise extradition of a suspect in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.

Scotland’s leader says she will take the British government to court over its decision to block a law that makes it easier for people in Scotland to change their gender on official documents.

The British government says it will block a law designed to make it easier for people in Scotland to legally change their gender.

U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has pledged to work constructively with Scotland’s leader despite tensions over her administration’s wish for a new independence referendum.

The announcement that a Libyan man suspected in the 1988 bombing of a passenger jet has been taken into U.S. custody put the spotlight back on the notorious terrorist attack.

The Justice Department says a Libyan intelligence official accused of making the bomb that brought down Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988 in an international act of terrorism has been taken into U.S. custody and will face federal charges in Washington.

The first-ever U.S. auction of leases to develop commercial-scale floating wind farms in the deep waters off the West Coast raised $757 million in bids, from mostly European companies.

Switzerland has won the biggest prize in women’s team tennis for the first time after Belinda Bencic completed a near-perfect tournament by beating Australia’s Alja Tomljanovic in straight sets in the Billie Jean King Cup final.

Ukraine head coach Oleksandr Petrakov is aiming to lift spirits in his country by leading the national soccer team to the European Championship tournament in 2024.

Scotland’s leader says she will push on with her campaign to take her country out of the United Kingdom, even if she loses a Supreme Court case seeking the authority for a new independence referendum.

Ukraine is set to join Spain and Portugal in a combined bid to host the 2030 World Cup.

King Charles III and his wife Camilla, the queen consort, have visited Scotland in their first joint public engagement since the royal mourning period to remember Queen Elizabeth II ended.

Since the death of Queen Elizabeth II, a handful of people in Britain have been detained by police for expressing anti-monarchy views.

King Charles III and his siblings have stood in silent vigil around their mother Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin in St Giles’ Cathedral in Edinburgh.

The whole world, including Houstonians are saying goodbye to Queen Elizabeth II.

From drought to cyclones and sea level rise, the cost of damage caused by climate change in Africa will only get higher as the world warms, stirring concerns from activists and officials about how to pay for it.

Boris Johnson’s term as British leader was a mix of high drama and low disgrace.

The former Irish President has called on African nations to pile on the pressure on rich, heavily-polluting countries to fulfill their climate pledges to the continent during a visit to Uganda.

In a first, Buckingham Palace says Queen Elizabeth II will remain in Scotland, where she is taking her summer break, to receive Britain’s outgoing Prime Minster Boris Johnson and his successor next week.

Public Health Scotland warns that stinking piles of garbage on the streets of Edinburgh are threatening public health and safety.

A small car used by Princess Diana in the 1980′s is expected to fetch a six-figure sum when it goes up for auction Saturday.

Jessica Korda made three eagles in an 11-under 61 Thursday that equaled a Ladies European Tour record and gave her a five-shot lead after the first round of the Aramco Team Series in Sotogrande, Spain.

A law has taken effect in Scotland to ensure period products are available free of charge to anyone who needs them.

Ashleigh Buhai has surged into a five-shot lead at the Women’s British Open after shooting a 7-under 64 in the third round at Muirfield.

In Gee Chun is making another strong run at a major.

Playing in borrowed clothes doesn’t seem to bother Jessica Korda at the Women’s British Open.

Richer countries failed to keep a $100 billion a year pledge to developing nations to help them achieve their climate goals, according to an analysis by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, or OECD.

The Biden administration wants the government to plant more than a billion trees across millions of acres of burned and dead woodlands as officials struggle to counter climate change's increasing toll on the nation’s forests.

The U.K. Supreme Court says will hold hearings in October on whether Scotland can call an independence referendum without the consent of the British government.

With St. Andrews fresh on people’s minds after seeing the images this weekend, one might wonder the following: How hard is it to play a round at the Old Course, the home of golf?

The birdies that flowed so freely for Viktor Hovland over the first three days of the British Open finally dried up.

None of the golfers who have opted to join the Saudi-funded breakaway series know if they will be allowed to keep playing at the sport’s four biggest events.

The dry conditions at the British Open turned a beautiful day for golf into a long slog for many of the players.

The first time Cameron Young played the Old Course at St. Andrews was a happy memory.

R&A chief Martin Slumbers is blasting the Saudi-funded LIV Golf series as being driven by money.

Tiger Woods called it “historic” and his “favorite.”.

Will Zalatoris has a chance to join some illustrious company at British Open.

Jon Rahm is looking to immerse himself in the history of the home of golf during his time at the British Open this week.

Cameron Tringale finally saw how the other half was living at the Scottish Open.

Cameron Tringale has spent 12 years trying to get his first PGA Tour win.

Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has told lawmakers in Edinburgh that she plans to hold a fresh referendum on Scottish independence on Oct. 19, 2023.

Queen Elizabeth II has traveled to Scotland and attended a ceremony as part of a week of traditional events.

Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has started her campaign for a second independence referendum.

The idea of tinkering with the air to cool Earth's ever-warming climate seems to be gaining momentum.

Ukraine beat Scotland 3-1 in a pulsating World Cup qualifying playoff semifinal on Wednesday.