The proportion of adults smoking cigarettes in the Orkney Islands was higher than the average across the UK these past few years, new figures suggest.

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Seabirds wheel, red sandstone glows, and a single street funnels island life into one colourful spine of shops and stories. In 2019, Kirkwall’s main ...

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You’re driving along a South Carolina road and suddenly wonder if you’re going the wrong way. You’ve got Google Maps keyed up on your phone and you reach over and pick it up for a peek. Are you ...

Chinese customs officials in the eastern province of Shandong have confiscated 60,000 maps that authorities said “mislabelled Taiwan” and “omitted important islands” in the South China Sea, both ...

The National Lottery Heritage Fund has unveiled six new areas joining its Heritage Places initiative, including the Orkney Islands. The six areas join nine others announced in 2023, as part of The ...

A screenshot from a video posted by China Customs showing customs officers in Qingdao inspecting a map containing "errors" such as “mislabels” of Taiwan. (Image: China Customs) BEIJING: Chinese ...

At least four people were killed and 20 injured, four of them critically, after a mass shooting at high school reunion at a South Carolina bar early Sunday, according to authorities. All four victims ...

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Antarctica’s krill, a shrimp-like crustacean with a biomass so large it constitutes a globally important carbon sink and climate change buffer, provides over 95 per cent of the calories consumed by ...

An earthquake measuring 5.4 on the Richter scale struck on Wednesday the South Sandwich Islands, a British Overseas Territory in the South Atlantic. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km, the US ...