Actors dressed in period costume with wolfhounds at their sides greeted guests at a special bash last night to celebrate the 200th birthday of one of the country’s best known hotels.

“What a tangled web we weave...” wrote Walter Scott, in his 1808 poem ‘Marmion’.

A city in South Carolina is to pay the family of an unarmed black man shot dead by a white policeman $6.5m.

Peniel E Joseph sets last week’s massacre at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston in the context of a climate of denial in America over national issues of racial inequality

A white man suspected of killing nine people in a Bible study group at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina, was arrested yesterday. Officials are investigating the attack as a hate crime.

An intense manhunt is under way for a young white man who joined a prayer meeting and then opened fire inside a church, killing nine people.

A white man opened fire during a prayer meeting inside a historic black church in the US, killing nine people in an assault that authorities described as a hate crime.

AT NIGHT, here on the island of La Gomera in the Canaries, we hear the pardelas — Cory’s Shearwaters — mewling as they cruise high above the lights of the harbour; their calls echoing against the sheer rock face that rises 1,000m directly above the port beach.

Questions persist about the fatal shooting of a black South Carolina motorist after the release of video taken from the car of the white US police officer charged over the death.

Questions persist about the fatal shooting of a black South Carolina motorist after the release of video taken from the car of the white police officer charged over the death.

A white South Carolina police officer has been dismissed from his job after being charged with murder for shooting an apparently unarmed black man in the back as he fled, the latest death that has brought protesters out to decry racism and police brutality in the United States.

In the United States, demonstrators have gathered in the city of North Charleston to protest at the fatal shooting of a black man by a white police officer.

Peter Niven had many great times as a jockey but is just as excited for the biggest moment of his training career as he saddles the well-fancied Clever Cookie in today’s Betfred Ebor at York.

Aidan O’Brien introduced a potentially smart recruit in Sir Walter Scott to land the www.sesif.org 2-Y-0 Race in Dundalk yesterday, the Galileo colt getting the better of the Ger Lyons-trained previous winners Seeking Luck and Washboard Sam after a protracted three-way battle.

Long before Barack Obama wrote about the audacity of hope, Frederick Douglass lived it. Dan Buckley hails the greatness of a man whose only weapons were self-belief and powerful words

A MEMBER of the Garda Reserve has been nominated for a prestigious Scott Medal after helping to foil a gun incident involving a well-known criminal.

A WAR of words erupted last night over claims that millions of people have been kissing the wrong Blarney Stone.

IT WAS with a good deal of interest that we saw some English newspapers singing the praises of Billy Beane recently.

Feast day of The Assumption of the Virgin Mary, St Tarsicius, and St Arnulf of Soissons.

Scotland’s most famous national dish has generated a great deal of interest around the world, not least for the ingredients used.