Hounded by both religious extremists and state officials at the Syrian university where they were teaching, Muhammad and Joury left on a journey helped by a British charity that has taken them to Scotland.

The husband and wife spent more than two years wandering across the Middle East, then to Turkey and finally to the University of Glasgow in Scotland, thanks to the Council For At Risk Academics (CARA).

Flags were flown at half mast above Scottish government buildings on Tuesday to remember six people killed when an out-of-control lorry ploughed into Christmas shoppers in Glasgow.

Another 10 people were injured, including the driver, after the refuse truck swept along a crowded pavement in the city center on Monday afternoon, knocking pedestrians down "like pinballs", according to one horrified eyewitness.

Six people were killed and at least seven others injured in Glasgow on Monday when a bin lorry plowed into crowds of Christmas shoppers in what appeared to be a tragic accident.

A police helicopter that plunged into a packed Glasgow bar last year, causing 10 deaths, suffered a double engine failure, investigators said Friday.

The Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) said the right engine of the Eurocopter EC135 "flamed out" before the left engine did likewise shortly afterwards.

Mourners lit candles as Scotland remembered those who were killed when a police helicopter plunged through the roof of a Glasgow pub, killing at least nine people, police said Monday.

Emergency service workers earlier began attempts to winch the police aircraft back through the roof of The Clutha, where it is feared further corpses may be found under its carcass, further raising the death toll.

British Prime Minister David Cameron urged the people of Scotland Sunday to vote to keep "a unique union of nations,” one year ahead of a referendum on independence.

"In a year from now, people living in Scotland will be making a choice which could radically change their country for ever," Cameron said.

South Korea's main airport operator is interested in buying London's Stansted from the British Airports Authority in a bid to expand overseas business, an official said Monday.

State-owned Incheon International Airport Corp is "watching with interest" Stansted as well as Glasgow airport, the Incheon official told Agence France Presse on condition of anonymity.

Parcel bombs were sent to Celtic boss Neil Lennon and two high-profile fans of the club in a dramatic escalation of football tensions in the divided city of Glasgow, police said Wednesday.

The devices targeting Lennon, his lawyer Paul McBride and member of the Scottish parliament Trish Godman were found at various locations across the west of Scotland in the past month.

A climber who fell around 1,000 feet (300 meters) from the summit of a Scottish mountain is lucky to be alive, his rescuers said Sunday.

The helicopter crew sent to search for the man were astonished to find him standing up and reading a map.