World

People living on the banks of Lake Malawi understand the real problems caused by over-fishing, but they also still need to eat, writes Susan Dalgety.

The world’s first all-female spacewalking team have made history high above Earth, replacing a broken part of the International Space Station’s power grid.

No one gets free pass for Donald Trump’s bizarre policies and odious treatment of a grieving family, writes Kevan Christie.

Does the Earth go around the sun? ‘Yes!’ Copernicus argued in 1543. His teachings were subsequently banned on the grounds that they contradicted Holy Scripture, and when ­Galileo Galilei published an essay in 1632 supporting Copernicus’s theory he was forced to refute it and put under house arrest.

Folk in Hawick have responded with derision to a US publishing company’s attempt to put God on their side.

Forty million people are trapped in slavery today – that’s more than at any other time in history. One in four of these is a child.

Scotch whisky accounts for $516.5m of total of $835m of UK products on US tariff list, writes Ian McKendrick.

Spain’s government said it would do whatever it takes to stamp out violence in Catalonia, where clashes between regional independence supporters and police have injured more than 200 people in two days.

Calling her “the mother of the mafia police” and yelling comments, pro-democracy MPs twice forced Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam to stop delivering a policy speech yesterday and then clamoured for her resignation in chaotic scenes that caused her to walk out of the legislature.

The way the England football team responded to racist abuse from some Bulgarian fans has won over Kenny MacAskill.

The rise of Donald Trump and other populists, on both the left and right, has changed what is considered acceptable debate, providing cover for racists, anti-semites masquerading as ‘anti-Zionists’ and Islamophobes, writes Alex Cole-Hamilton.

The gap between the sometimes brutal ancient world, as depicted in Homer, and modern times is not as wide as we might like to think as our response to some of those in trouble on the sea demonstrates, writes Alexander McCall Smith.

Hundreds of scholars around the world are targeted and prosecuted for their research, writes Matthew Hedges.

Spain’s standing in the world has taken a major knock with the jailing of elected Catalan leaders, writes Angus Robertson.

Brexit will mean the UK loses its seat at the EU table just as it prepares to make globally important decisions about the Internet Age, on issues such as taxing tech giants like Google and Facebook, writes Catherine Stihler.

A British man has died in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia ahead of England's Euro 2020 qualifier.

Just when the tragedy of Syria couldn’t get any worse, President Donald Trump has single-handedly managed to do just that.