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Draper dominates Baez as seeds tumble around him
British number one Jack Draper beats clay court specialist Sebastian Baez, who retired with an injured knee after a slip
4 min |
July 02, 2025
The Independent
Could this mean the end for your ISA? Not necessarily...
I’ve been a fierce critic of the chancellor, Rachel Reeves - and I make no apology for that.
4 min |
July 02, 2025
The Independent
Au current: how mini fans became summer essentials
As temperatures rise across the country, these portable gadgets are having a moment in the sun. Katie Rosseinsky explores their new popularity and environmental impact
4 min |
July 02, 2025
The Independent
‘It’s all teeth!’: The biggest, baddest Jurassic Park sequel
With the seventh instalment in the dino franchise arriving in cinemas today, Tom Fordy looks back on ‘Jurassic Park III’, the best and bitiest hatchling from the Spielberg original
7 min |
July 02, 2025
The Independent
What are the real numbers behind the welfare debate?
Passionate debate about reforms to social security for those with long-term illness or disabilities throws up many claims and counterclaims about the health of the nation and Britain’s welfare state.
5 min |
July 02, 2025
The Independent
‘Filtered out ... this isn’t job hunting, it’s digital erasure’
Older workers are falling foul of algorithms as firms favour youth. But Jacqueline Freeman has decided to fight back – and says that over-50s should be unapologetic about their age
6 min |
July 02, 2025
The Independent
Gig that brought the bands — and the world — together
Paul McCartney played with Bono and Pink Floyd reunited. Mark Beaumont recalls dream lineups and backstage antics, with the help of Razorlight and UB40, 20 years after Live 8
9 min |
July 02, 2025
The Independent
Executions and paranoia: inside Tehran’s crackdown
In the wake of Israel’s attacks, Iran has brought in strict new laws to suppress dissent, reports Amirhossein Miresmaeili
3 min |
July 02, 2025
The Independent
Europe swelters in record early summer temperatures
Wildfires and evacuations as heatwave grips continent and Mediterranean is recorded at 30C, putting marine life at risk
3 min |
July 02, 2025
The Independent
Year's hottest day so far as temperature soars past 34C
The UK recorded its hottest day of the year so far as temperatures surpassed 34C and much of the country sweltered in heatwave conditions.
3 min |
July 02, 2025
The Independent
Uproar as rape of woman in Bangladesh is shared online
A Hindu woman’s gang-rape in central Bangladesh, which was filmed and widely shared online, has sparked nationwide protests and renewed concerns over systemic violence against minorities and women in the south Asian nation.
3 min |
July 02, 2025
The Independent
Glastonbury shows exactly why I quit my job at the BBC
This weekend, if you wanted to watch Kneecap's Glastonbury performance live on the West Holts stage, you wouldn’t have found it on the BBC.
2 min |
July 02, 2025
The Independent
Cold case rapist and killer, 92, is told he’ll die in prison
A 92-year-old man who raped and murdered an elderly widow in the 1960s has been jailed for life and told he will die in prison, in what is thought to be the UK’s longest-running cold case ever to be solved.
3 min |
July 02, 2025
The Independent
Trans group calls for probe into equality watchdog's conduct over gender ruling
A leading trans campaign group has requested an investigation into the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), claiming its conduct in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling on gender has been unlawful, The Independent can reveal.
3 min |
July 02, 2025
The Independent
Trump ‘to look’ at deporting Musk after rift re-emerges
Threat comes as his One Big Beautiful Bill Act passes hurdle
2 min |
July 02, 2025
The Independent
ActionAid pulls accounts from HSBC over climate damage 'worth £128bn'
ActionAid UK has accused HSBC of “choosing profit over people and planet” - saying it is pulling the “majority” of its accounts from the banking giant over the funding of climate-damaging projects.
3 min |
July 02, 2025
The Independent
ON THIS DAY
1489: Thomas Cranmer, Henry VIII’s first reformed Archbishop of Canterbury, was born. He was responsible for the Book of Common Prayer in 1549.
1 min |
July 02, 2025
The Independent
Time to chuck out check-in
Simon Calder is tired of jumping through airline hoops
2 min |
July 02, 2025
The Independent
Wiegman’s woes: which team will turn up for Euros?
As the Lionesses prepare for the finals, the manager’s abrupt approach isn’t working as it used to, finds Miguel Delaney
5 min |
July 02, 2025
The Independent
TOMES FOR TOTS
Rebecca Moore on top reads for your budding bookworm
6 min |
July 02, 2025
The Independent
Priest abused a staggering number of women, jury told
A priest once hailed for his “groundbreaking” services became the leader of a cult in the Church of England and sexually abused a “staggering” number of women, a court heard.
3 min |
July 02, 2025
The Independent
Krejcikova survives tough opener as she defends title
Number two seed Coco Gauff is knocked out in first round
6 min |
July 02, 2025
The Independent
Backbencher steals show as Kendall left high and dry
Poor Liz Kendall. No doubt Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves had irresistible reasons of state for not being on the front bench to support her during the second reading of her Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill.
3 min |
July 02, 2025
The Independent
Labour heads off welfare revolt with big concessions
Sir Keir Starmer has suffered the biggest blow to his leadership since coming into power a year ago after he was forced to abandon a key plank of his controversial benefit cuts in order to get them through parliament.
3 min |
July 02, 2025
The Independent
Do train delays ever get you more than a mere refund?
QDoes the rail network have a compensation scheme for late arrivals like airlines?
1 min |
July 02, 2025
The Independent
Bumrah fitness leaves India with Edgbaston quandry
And so the balance of the bowlers begins.
4 min |
July 02, 2025
The Independent
Record 20,000 make small- boat Channel crossings in first six months of the year
A record number of people have crossed the Channel in small boats in the first six months of this year, figures reveal, despite Sir Keir Starmer’s pledge to “smash” the smuggling gangs.
3 min |
July 02, 2025
The Independent
Nothing is as damaging to Labour as its own rebel MPs
Divided parties do not win elections, and yet Labour cannot help itself.
3 min |
July 02, 2025
The Independent
This viral advert taps into our worst fears about AI
A campaign urging employers to ‘stop hiring humans’ left Helen Coffey raging - because it hit too close to home
5 min |
July 01, 2025
The Independent
Playing the Vylan: the BBC and Glastonbury show must go on, despite the controversy
When the country is divided, the BBC is on the rack.” So said a BBC executive at the time of the Suez crisis in 1956, which led to the resignation of the then-prime minister, Anthony Eden. That crisis was over the Middle East.
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