Texan troubleshooter Red Adair’s rescue team tamed the flames of an ill-fated North Sea oil rig - only for it to go on fire again three times in Dundee.
Governments were stepping up testing and warily considering their next moves on Monday as the number of newly confirmed coronavirus cases surges in many countries.
The world has surpassed 500,000 confirmed coronavirus deaths and 10 million confirmed cases.
Texas and Florida have clamped down on bars as the number of confirmed coronavirus cases per day in the US surged to an all-time high of 40,000.
The coronavirus crisis is deepening in the US as the number of daily confirmed cases closes in on the peak reached in late April.
A coronavirus resurgence is wiping out two months of progress in the US and sending infections to new levels across the country’s south and west.
Daniel Berger has defeated fellow American Collin Morikawa in a play-off to win the 2020 Charles Schwab Challenge, the first PGA tournament since the coronavirus suspension.
While it may originate in the north-east, expats from across the world and Aberdonians alike can't get enough of this local delicacy.
A shooting at a Texas naval air station that wounded a sailor and left the gunman dead is being investigated as “terrorism-related”, the FBI said.
A rout in global oil markets continued on Tuesday, as traders in Europe caught up with extraordinary events in the US on Monday evening.
Traders were being paid more than 40 dollars to buy a barrel of oil on Monday, due to a quirk of the market as falling global demand because of coronavirus pushed the price into negative territory for the first time in history.
An American woman who was facing the threat of deportation during the coronavirus lockdown has been given a six-month reprieve.
A growing wave of unrest over coroanvirus lockdown measures appears to be rising in the US, with a number of protests taking place this week in various states.
An American woman who has lived in Aberdeen for seven years has been left “shell-shocked” after being told to leave the country despite the ongoing pandemic lockdown.
Apple has begun construction on a billion-dollar (£775 million) campus in the US, which will house 5,000 employees when it opens in 2022.
Oscar-winning actor Matthew McConaughey is to join the University of Texas as a professor in the autumn.
Lana Del Rey said she will donate the proceeds from her latest single to the victims of recent mass shootings in the US.
Star Wars actor Peter Mayhew has been celebrated for portraying Chewbacca underneath “a half ton of yak hair” as tributes were paid following his death.
Star Wars actor Peter Mayhew has been remembered as a “big man with an even bigger heart” following his death at the age of 74.
US Border Patrol agents have found a three-year-old boy alone in a field in Texas at the Mexico border.
Student nurses who have taken part in a healthcare exchange programme are being urged to help mark its 25th anniversary.
Aberdeen's Lord Provost has met industry leaders and experts at an international energy conference.
Huge hailstones have been falling overnight in Texas amid severe storms across the US state.
President Donald Trump started a trip to Texas by privately meeting families of some of the 10 people killed in a school shooting this month.
Celebrities have called for tighter gun controls in the United States following the deaths of 10 people at a high school in Texas.
This is the moment an adorable puppy caused “quite a stir” after getting her head stuck in a car wheel.
This is the moment an adorable puppy caused “quite a stir” after getting her head stuck in a car wheel.
This is the moment an adorable puppy caused “quite a stir” after getting her head stuck in a car wheel.
A border wall between the US and Mexico will harm endangered plants and animals and cause trouble for the growing ecotourism industry in Texas, scientists say.
An oil worker based in Houston has gone on trial in Aberdeen accused of stalking his former boss.