A music student at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow is helping to show that the bagpipes are more than "just a traditional instrument". Anna Smart, 24, who is originally from Fife ...

Around the world this week, Scots gathered in their tartans, heard the squeal of a bagpipe and dug into a serving of haggis as they honored their most famous countryman, poet Robert Burns.

The Austrian school recognizes that economic analysis is timeless and the ancient story of “The Poor Man of Nippur” provides an excellent example. From time preference to the structure of production, ...

Celebrated all over Scotland and the world on Burns’ birthday, Burns Night involves the playing of bagpipes, the eating of traditional Scottish food and the recitation of Burns poems ...

Watch now as honor guards fire a 21-gun salute and play "Amazing Grace" on the bagpipes after the funeral of Navasota Police Sergeant Mark Butler.

Plus Katie the Wheeled Piper plays for us on her adapted bagpipes. The 18-year-old had the honour of piping in the haggis for the BBC’s Burns Night Extravaganza which is broadcast on 25 January ...

The penalty, issued by a court in the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, follows the collapse of a deal involving Raiffeisen to release a Russian-owned stake in an Austrian builder, which unravelled ...

They were playing a certain instrument [the bagpipes].” “I was instantly captivated by the melancholy sound. And then I thought, ‘I'm going to quit cooking and learn to play the bagpipes’.” ...

VIENNA, Jan 20 (Reuters) - A Russian court awarded more than 2 billion euros ($2.1 billion) of damages against the biggest Western bank in Russia, Austria's Raiffeisen Bank International ...

The connecting theme of the book is that all the writers under discussion are Austrian (or, in the cases of Franz Kafka and Elias Canetti, Austrian enough), of whom the best known to anglophone ...

Austria wore out the cordon sanitaire long ago. For much of the postwar era, the Freedom party was excluded by a series of grand coalitions (barring a single early-1980s coalition with the Social ...

But Brussels will nevertheless be “keeping an eye” on Vienna’s budget situation over the coming months. The European Commission has decided not to formally reprimand Austria for breaching ...