“An increase in westerly winds from the Atlantic is usually associated with more low-pressure systems, and in winter these bring wet, windy and mild conditions to the UK. The increased chances ...

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Revellers have gathered on Shetland for the annual Up Helly Aa fire festival. The event marks the end of the Yule season in Nordic culture, and features “guizers” in Viking costume marching ...

The new flight connection between Los Angeles and Athens has been announced by Norse Atlantic. The flight between Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) and Athens (ATH) will begin on June 3 ...

Members of the Jarl Squad parade through Lerwick (Jane Barlow/PA) Originating in the 1880s, the festival celebrates Shetland’s Norse heritage (Jane Barlow/PA) More than 1,000 torches are lit on ...

The National Medical Commission has launched an investigation into doctors whose foreign trips, funded by AbbVie Healthcare, breached the Uniform Code for Pharmaceutical Practices. AbbVie spent over a ...

For more than a decade, I have hosted an hour-long cable TV show on MSNBC. When I got my own show, I imagined it as something akin to the experience of first-time car ownership. I could drive ...

Norse activity in Europe started sooner than AD 793 and continued ... forging deep connections with the Slavic and Byzantine cultures. While in the North Atlantic, Viking ships sailed even further and ...

above the Atlantic. This huge injection of energy high up in the atmosphere will cause Storm Éowyn to deepen rapidly as it heads towards the UK and it is this that brings the threat of gales and ...