Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown continues his series on women of courage with the story of Jewish resistance hero Rachel Margolis

A Peterborough jeweller and a Lithuanian passerby are hailed as heroes after tackling a pair of armed robbers.

The chap who founded Carphone Warehouse but left in disgrace?

The Baltic state of Estonia became the 17th European Union member to adopt the joint European currency, the euro early today.

Ireland has been ordered to reform complex abortion laws after European judges ruled that a ban violated the rights of a woman who feared a cancer relapse during an unplanned pregnancy.

The remains of 18 soldiers from Napoleon Bonaparte's Grande Armée were reburied in Lithuania yesterday almost 200 years after the siege of Moscow failed and the men were forced to flee westwards in the freezing cold.

Throat-singing jazz from the celebrated Tuvan diva Namtchylak, with Wolfgang Puschnig on flute and sax and Paul Urbanek on piano, recorded live at the Vilnius Jazz Festival.

Great Britain got off to a near faultless start in the European Track Championships yesterday, making the podium in all four scheduled events and seeing the men and women win gold in the team pursuit.

A record number of people took part in the Athens classic marathon yesterday to mark the 2,500th anniversary of the fabled run that inspired the modern event.

If you are going to weigh in on matters of religion, you can’t turn yourself into a pantomime grouch

Three Nato troops were killed by a bomb in western Afghanistan and another died in an insurgent attack in the east today, bringing to 10 the number of service members killed in the past two days.

Having required 96 minutes to deal with Liechtenstein, ranked 141st in the world, Scotland do not embark on their two games in the next five days accompanied by a sense of optimism, certainly not with Spain, standing a mere 140 places higher than the last visitors to Hampden, heading for Glasgow next week.

Gary Caldwell will take no notice of Spain's lengthening injury list ahead of the Euro 2012 qualifying clash at Hampden next Tuesday night.

Rangers defender opens up to Simon Hart on Scotland's 'realistic' chance of qualifying for Euro 2012, feeling insecure at Everton and becoming a coach when he finally calls it quits