Swedish singer Loreen has won this year's Eurovision Song Contest in Azerbaijan, with UK entry Engelbert Humperdinck finishing 25th out of 26th.

The world's oldest marathon runner is set to join more than 27,000 runners on the streets of the Scottish capital at the 10th Edinburgh Marathon Festival.

Prominent atheist Richard Dawkins says he supports the plan to put a Bible in every English school.

Hundreds of households are being warned to take action against high levels of a gas thought to lead to lung cancer.

The former airbase at Machrihanish on the Kintyre peninsula is sold for £1, BBC Scotland has learned.

SNP MEP Alyn Smith criticises Olympic bosses for banning the saltire from being flown at Hampden Park in Glasgow during the Games.

Carl Froch stops Lucian Bute in round five to take the IBF super-middleweight title and become a three-time world champion.

Spain's fourth-largest bank, Bankia, asks for a bailout worth 19bns euros ($24bn; £15bn), and admits that it made a massive loss last year.