Hundreds of residents reported hearing explosions in the early hours of Friday caused by the weather phenomenon. After receiving a number of calls, Police Scotland took to Twitter to reassure residents that there was no need to be alarmed.

Finding the deep-diving species so far inland was incredible. Rescuers made a sterling effort to save the 21ft-long animal found in a tributary of the River Clyde near Glasgow Airport. Two died after stranding on shores of the Firth of Clyde and another in the Western Isles.

The man, identified as 38-year-old Dutch citizen was attacked in his tent before dawn and died shortly afterwards of his injuries. Svalbard officials say there were seven people on the site at the time and they are being looked after by health services.

Icicles covered businesses in the village of Braemar. The Met Office says Braemar in Aberdeenshire recorded the coldest night since December 1995.

The forecast for Tuesday and Wednesday comes amid wintry weather dubbed the Beast from the East II. Deep drifts of snow blocking the Banchory to Fettercairn road at Cairn Mount in Aberdeenshire.

The dolphins were part of a group of more than 50 that got into difficulty in the Cromarty Firth.

Discovery prompts fear that melting ice will allow more plastic to be released back into the oceans. Traces of 17 different types of plastic were found in frozen seawater.

Experienced fisherman William Sutherland was trying to return to a harbour when his boat was overturned. His 6m (20ft) boat, Anna-Marie II, was capsized at the mouth of the River Brora on 23 September 2019.

Pink salmon are native to the Pacific Ocean. From stocking programs in Russia in the 1960s they have spread to Northern Europe, and in 2017 male and female pink salmon were spotted in the River Ness in the Highlands of Scotland. And now, two years later, camera images suggest that their spawn has returned.

The usual treatments are failing 60% of the time in some regions of Cambodia, scientists say.

The Outer Hebrides are already suffering from the impacts of climate change including higher tides, longer storms and erosion.

British Columbia has declared a state of emergency and thousands have been evacuated.

Rivers burst their banks, homes were flooded and travel was impacted as Wales was battered by Storm Callum.

The animal was part of a pod which rescuers hoped would swim to deeper water before a major military exercise.

Three people died earlier in the Netherlands in accidents caused by hurricane-strength winds.

A fierce storm sweeping across northern Europe kills eight people and halts Dutch and German trains.

A UN official says it looks from the air like parts of Mozambique were "run over by a bulldozer".

Temperatures pass 39C in Belgium and the Netherlands, as a Eurostar train breaks down in the heat.

Maps and graphics show the extent of the devastating flooding caused by Hurricane Harvey in Houston and Texas.