Great Britain

Scotland has become the 'COVID capital' of Europe with five in ten of the areas with highest infection rates, according to the Scottish newspaper.

At a time when British Prime Minister Theresa May is trying hard to seal the Brexit deal, a study shows that the original Brexit took place around 450,000 years ago.

Interestingly, no one voted for it when Britain walked away from the rest of Europe at that time. Scientists explain that it happened when a strip of land, which once connected ancient Britain to Europe, was destroyed.

Doggerland was an area of land, now lying beneath the southern North Sea, that connected Great Britain to mainland Europe during and after the last Ice Age. It was then gradually flooded by rising sea levels around 6,500–6,200 BCE.

The people of Scotland will decide on Thursday whether to end a partnership with the rest of the United Kingdom that has lasted more than 300 years. Here is a guide to Scotland as the historic vote nears