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The Independent
What tips do you have for choosing a travel agent?
Q I want to go to New Zealand via Singapore in business class in January.
1 min |
September 09, 2025

The Independent
Mahmood to go 'further and faster' on immigration
Threat to cut visas of countries who refuse to 'play ball'
3 min |
September 09, 2025

The Independent
ON THIS DAY
1087: William the Conqueror died in Rouen, France, from injuries received when his horse threw him while he was fighting the King of France.
1 min |
September 09, 2025

The Independent
Could Mahmood become the left's answer to Thatcher?
The ink was barely dry on Shabana Mahmood's letter of appointment as home secretary by Keir Starmer when speculation began that she could follow him as Labour leader one day.
4 min |
September 09, 2025

The Independent
After Jerusalem shooting, Netanyahu orders Gaza City residents: 'Leave now'
Israel ramps up offensive after Palestinian gunmen kill six
3 min |
September 09, 2025

The Independent
A match that could be the making of Tuchel's England
The first thing the England players are likely to notice is “the banging”, “the noise”, especially as they embark down that famously long tunnel. It’s certainly what Harry Kane remembers, as one of the few squad members to have played in the Marakana.
5 min |
September 09, 2025

The Independent
One deputy PM hopeful will give Starmer sleepless nights
Is Keir Starmer's worst political nightmare about to unfold? Following Angela Rayner's resignation from the cabinet as well as her role as Labour's deputy leader, the party has been plunged into another self-inflicted crisis.
3 min |
September 09, 2025

The Independent
Bus stop killings embolden the extremists on both sides
Overweight and middle-aged, a taxi driver calmly opens the door for his passenger as bullets fly from a militant attack on a bus just down the road.
4 min |
September 09, 2025

The Independent
Alcaraz's US Open triumph sets Sinner fresh challenge
As the cameras started to pan away and the trophy ceremony wound down, Carlos Alcaraz received a tap on the shoulder. He turned around to find Jannik Sinner, who had climbed the steps up to the stage to offer the new US Open champion and world No 1 his congratulations one last time.
4 min |
September 09, 2025

The Independent
Leave workers' rights bill alone, unions tell Starmer
Fears Rayner's exit will trigger Labour shift to right
4 min |
September 09, 2025

The Independent
Anger at Tube strike grows as smaller businesses suffer
\"It's Monday lunchtime, we should be busy with queues but we have just one customer inside.\"
3 min |
September 09, 2025

The Independent
Art attack: Banksy work to be removed from court
The new Banksy artwork showing a judge beating a protester will be removed from the Royal Courts of Justice, HM Courts and Tribunals have said.
3 min |
September 09, 2025

The Independent
MONEY FOR NOTHING
In our increasingly cashless world, fewer than half of us now carry a wallet. Ellie Harrison is already starting to miss hers
4 min |
September 09, 2025

The Independent
NHS league tables won't help patients, say experts
The government has published “league tables” for NHS hospitals in England for the first time.
2 min |
September 09, 2025

The Independent
Chancellor must calm fears over Budget pensions raid
“Prudent savers now feel like prey.” So said Richard Watkins, a certified financial planner at Continuum, a national firm of financial advisers, in response to the frenzied speculation that chancellor Rachel Reeves intends to hit pensions in her autumn statement, on 26 November.
3 min |
September 09, 2025

The Independent
Why McLaren's title rivals may be about to turn nasty
Nice guy teammates Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris have so far adhered to 'papaya rules' – but one could soon break rank
3 min |
September 09, 2025

The Independent
Harry and William were just miles apart but no meeting
The Duke of Sussex and the Prince of Wales have remembered their grandmother the late Queen Elizabeth II separately on the third anniversary of her death. Harry and William were just seven miles apart as they paid their respects to the nation’s longest-reigning monarch.
2 min |
September 09, 2025

The Independent
Could US ‘second phase’ sanctions really hurt Putin?
US president Donald Trump said he is ready to move into a second phase of Russian sanctions after Moscow hit Ukraine with its largest air attack of the war.
2 min |
September 09, 2025

The Independent
After Jerusalem shooting, Netanyahu orders Gaza City residents: 'Leave now'
Israel ramps up offensive after Palestinian gunmen kill six
3 min |
September 09, 2025

The Independent
Where France goes next after government's fall
It was Charles de Gaulle, French wartime hero and president more than half a century ago, who once exclaimed in exasperation:
3 min |
September 09, 2025

The Independent
Trump's 'bawdy' birthday letter to Epstein published
Donald Trump's alleged “bawdy” letter to Jeffrey Epstein that features a hand-drawn figure of a naked woman along with the president's reported signature has now been made public after lawyers for the estate of deceased sexual offender provided a copy of the birthday book to the House oversight committee.
3 min |
September 09, 2025

The Independent
SETTLING THE SCORE
Had he not died before his rival, Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe would now be feted as the greater playwright, contends a thrilling new biography
5 min |
September 09, 2025

The Independent
Mushroom killer sentenced to life for poisoning family
Erin Patterson, the Australian woman who murdered three of her estranged husband's family by poisoning them with death cap mushrooms, has been sentenced to life in prison with a non-parole period of 33 years.
3 min |
September 09, 2025

The Independent
Your ‘end of summer cold’ may be something far worse
I was only thinking recently how long it had been since I'd been ill. Oh, the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune: fast forward to last Monday, and I was knocked flat by Covid-19 - like it's 2020, all over again.
4 min |
September 09, 2025

The Independent
Alcaraz beats Sinner in New York to reclaim No 1 spot
Spaniard easily conquers out-of-sorts Italian in US Open final
5 min |
September 08, 2025

The Independent
Thomas ‘chokes up’ riding one last stage in hometown
Former Tour de France winner Geraint Thomas is celebrated by thousands in Cardiff as he calls time on glittering career
4 min |
September 08, 2025

The Independent
Russian drone attack hits Kyiv government building
A mother and three-month-old child were among those killed in what Keir Starmer called Putin's 'cowardly strikes'
3 min |
September 08, 2025

The Independent
Japan's PM resigns and calls for new leadership election
Japanese prime minister Shigeru Ishiba has announced his decision to step down, less than two months after his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) lost its majority in the country's upper house election.
4 min |
September 08, 2025

The Independent
Who's in the running to be new Labour deputy leader?
Angela Rayner’s resignation has sparked a battle for the soul of the Labour Party.
3 min |
September 08, 2025

The Independent
Met Office warns expected rain may not ease drought
Drought conditions could persist into winter across the UK, despite forecasts for a wetter-than-average autumn and increasing flood risks, officials warn.
3 min |