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This week marks Global Entrepreneurship Week and a time to celebrate the three Is – innovation, inspiration and invention. Every country has a reason for celebrating entrepreneurship and most will be marking the occasion by bringing business invention and creative mindset into sharp focus.

As wildfires claim lives and destroy homes in California, we must not let Trump distract us from delivering urgent climate action, writes Carline Rance of Friends of the Earth Scotland.

Donald Trump’s threat to withhold federal aid from California to help it cope with devastating wildfires – because of his unscientific views about climate change – is the latest sign that he is not fit to be US President, writes Ian Johnston.

As we approached May 2018, there was no escaping the impending general data protection regulation (GDPR). Following its announcement, we watched our inboxes fill with ‘opt-in’ marketing emails from brands we forgot we followed and saw unprecedented levels of panic as businesses grappled with the reality of what it could mean for them, their customers and their data.

A five-minute scan of blood vessels in the neck during mid-life could become part of future dementia screening, researchers have suggested.

Silhouettes of soldiers from the First World War have been projected on to famous UK landmarks, including Edinburgh Castle.

In the long period of relative peace that preceded the First World War, an idea developed that there was little prospect of a cataclysmic conflict between the so-called “Great Powers”. The world was far too closely interconnected by the then modern communication systems of the telegraph and telephone, which had cut the time taken to deliver messages across continents from days and weeks to minutes, and by mutually enriching trade between nations.

On Monday, 21 January, 1918, Private Edward Mullholland, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, gave an account of a train derailment he was involved in.

The rise of cryptocurrency means financial firms may have to replace much of their internal IT infrastructure.

It was the greatest loss of civilian lives from a German attack on Scottish soil during the First World War.

Engineers have used a drone to fly broadband cable across a river for the first time to reach a remote property in a Highland glen.

Plans to mechanically harvest tens of thousands of tonnes of kelp every year from Scotland’s seabeds would have a “devastating” impact on marine life and leave the world a “poorer place”, according to a leading seaweed expert.

Some of Scotland’s leading experts provide their answers.

The operators of the controversial offshore wind farm opposed by Donald Trump are launching a ground-breaking study of the behaviour of seabirds in an effort to cut the danger of collisions with turbines.

A rabbi conducting a memorial service at Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau presented Scotland’s First Minister with an heirloom as a token of thanks for Scotland’s role in saving his family.

An era-defining game made in part at Rockstar North in Scotland raises questions about industry practices, writes Martyn McLaughlin.

Not getting as many likes as you want on Instagram? One company thinks it has cracked the perfect posting schedule.