Nearly 85 percent of voters cast their ballots in the independence referendum. — -- Scotland won't be leaving the United Kingdom after all. After weeks of buildup, Scots rejected independence and ...

EDINBURGH, Scotland -- Scottish voters have rejected independence, deciding to remain part of the United Kingdom in a historic referendum that shook the country to its core. The decision prevented a ...

In 1746 forces loyal to Bonny Prince Charlie, the last Stuart claimant to the throne of Scotland, were crushed at the Battle of Culloden, near Inverness. Almost 40 years earlier, in 1707, the Act of ...

Stirling, Scotland — When Scotland voted in 2014 against independence, that seemed to settle the issue: The hauntingly rugged region where Britain's royal family spends its holidays at its vast ...

If Scotland leaves the UK, reverberations will be felt around the world. — -- Of all the many crises this summer -- from ISIS, to Ukraine, Ebola to Libya -- who'd have thought jolly old England ...

British Prime Minister David Cameron said the Scottish vote to remain in the United Kingdom has put the question of independence to rest "for a generation," but he pledged constitutional reforms to ...

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People in Scotland are voting in regional parliamentary elections. Victory for nationalist candidates will lead to calls for a referendum on Scottish independence and a possible split from the U.K.

Have you ever wondered what's the difference between the United Kindom, Great Britain, and England? Let's start with England, England is a country that is part of Great Britain which also includes ...

On Thursday, when Scottish voters put their relationship with the U.K. to the ballot, three hundred years of membership in the United Kingdom will be at stake. But those 307 years of togetherness ...

THE UNITED KINGDOM was not born in glory. The English conquest of Ireland in the 17th century was brutal, motivated by fear of invasion and facilitated by the superiority of Cromwell's army. The ...