Edinburgh University stripped Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe on Wednesday of his honourary degree after reviewing evidence of a tribal massacre soon after he took power. The decision by the university’s Senate comes after years of campaigning by students and Scottish lawmakers.
She’s as much an emblem — and a tourist draw — as tartan, bagpipes and shortbread. And now Nessie’s back. An amateur scientist has captured what Loch Ness monster watchers say is among the finest footage taken to date of the elusive mythical creature reputed to swim beneath the waters of Scotland’s most mysterious lake.
Prudence and Polly the pigeons are blissfully unaware that they are at the centre of the latest political storm to hit Scotland’s Parliament. The birds go about their business of pecking and eating in their nest in the canopy above the main entrance of the iconic building in Scotland’s capital.