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The Independent
A dream return home turns into a nightmare wasteland
Nedal Hamdouna, a Palestinian journalist, describes the joy he felt in being able to return to Beit Lahia in northern Gaza and the pain of knowing just how much needs to be rebuilt
4 min |
January 30, 2025
The Independent
Blunt kitchen knives to help reduce stabbings, says Elba
Actor Idris Elba has suggested more action can be taken to make kitchen knives safer to reduce stabbings across the country.
2 min |
January 30, 2025
The Independent
Boom Supersonic jet breaks sound barrier on first flight
Almost 22 years after Concorde made its final commercial flight, a prototype passenger jet has broken the sound barrier during a supersonic test flight.
2 min |
January 30, 2025
The Independent
Just three in 10 think Brexit was right decision, poll says
Five years after Brexit, the proportion of Britons who think it was right to leave the EU is at its lowest-ever point since the referendum.
2 min |
January 30, 2025
The Independent
Trump backs Guantanamo Bay facility to hold migrants
President Donald Trump yesterday signed an order directing his administration to revive a migrant detention facility at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Station in Cuba to hold detained migrants while they await deportation.
4 min |
January 30, 2025
The Independent
Mandelson backtracks on ‘ill-judged' Trump criticism
The UK’s new ambassador to Washington, Peter Mandelson, has claimed that Donald Trump has won fresh respect” as he sought to disown his previous criticism of the US president.
2 min |
January 30, 2025
The Independent
Rogers scores hat-trick as Villa extend winning run
On a night dominated by transfer news surrounding their two leading marksmen, a hat-trick from someone else, Morgan Rogers, was required to fire Aston Villa directly into the last 16 of the Champions League as Uefa netted yet another victory for their shiny new format.
2 min |
January 30, 2025
The Independent
Bishop of Liverpool denies claims of sexual harassment
The Bishop of Liverpool has denied any wrongdoing after allegations of sexual assault and harassment were made against him.
2 min |
January 30, 2025
The Independent
UK car production falls to the lowest level since 1954
Car production in the UK has fallen almost to its lowest since 1954 last year, with some 779,584 units rolling off British production lines in 2024, 13.9 per cent down on 2023.
3 min |
January 30, 2025
The Independent
RFK Jr quizzed on vaccine history at senate hearing
As his cousin Caroline Kennedy labels him a predator’
2 min |
January 30, 2025
The Independent
Joy of The One Show is in its unapologetic weirdness
On paper, BBC One’s weeknight light entertainment show should be one of the broadcaster’s most tedious programmes. But its jarring tonal shifts and random guest list often make for brilliantly bizarre viewing, writes Katie Rosseinsky
6 min |
January 29, 2025
The Independent
Amateur fossil hunter finds 66-million-year-old vomit
A piece of fossilised vomit from the age of the dinosaurs has been found in Denmark, the Museum of East Zealand announced on Monday.
1 min |
January 29, 2025
The Independent
The stars who could set this season’s Six Nations alight
The Independent’s writers pick six players with potential
5 min |
January 29, 2025
The Independent
Why Barca’s ballsy offside trap could change the game
Weird and wonderful things are happening at Barcelona this season.
4 min |
January 29, 2025
The Independent
Get ready for the chaos of Champions League finals’
Man City among the giants facing crunch matches tonight
5 min |
January 29, 2025
The Independent
Without immigration, wed be a lonely, isolated isle
A paradox of public opinion is that immigration is unpopular, but immigrants are not.
3 min |
January 29, 2025
The Independent
UK faces care timebomb as over-85s are set to double
The government is being urged to pour more funding into the care system after new projections showed the country is facing a social care timebomb as the number of over-85s is set to double over the next two decades.
3 min |
January 29, 2025
The Independent
Five years after Brexit, the Rock’s still in a hard place
The future of Gibraltar is being decided by long, tense treaty negotiations with the UK, Spain and EU. Sarah Sands visits to see what is at stake for the strategic port and its residents
6 min |
January 29, 2025
The Independent
‘Those military guys have a sick sense of humour too’
Palestinian-American Mo Amer talks with Annabel Nugent about the return of his TV show, his family in the West Bank, and performing stand-up for US troops months after 9/11
8 min |
January 29, 2025
The Independent
On a wing and a prayer
‘Mixed mode’ could solve Heathrow’s capacity crunch long before a third runway. But the idea is unlikely to fly with Home Counties residents sick of noise, says Simon Calder
3 min |
January 29, 2025
The Independent
The moving wheels of history offered a DeepSeek lesson
There were car manufacturers before Henry Ford came up with the Model T.
3 min |
January 29, 2025
The Independent
Trump relents and accepts Mandelson as ambassador
Labour peer’s OK tempered by resistance to Chagos deal
3 min |
January 29, 2025
The Independent
Print media will mourn for WHSmith... but who else?
The theme for the British high street? It has to be Another One Bites the Dust”. WHSmith is the latest famous name for whom that thumping baseline is tolling.
3 min |
January 29, 2025
The Independent
Bodies found in streets as Congo rebels target key city
Battles between Rwanda-backed rebels and pro-government forces are intensifying in the Congo city of Goma, as heavy gunfire and explosions were heard, and dead bodies were found in the streets.
2 min |
January 29, 2025
The Independent
The brainwashing parents raising mini-me children
As Elon Musk dubs his four-year-old a Trump supporter’, Charlotte Cripps asks why some mums and dads insist on pushing their own ideologies onto their young children
4 min |
January 29, 2025
The Independent
Serbian PM resigns amid anti-corruption protests
Serbian prime minister Milos Vucevic has resigned, becoming the most significant political casualty of the anti-corruption protests sweeping the country.
2 min |
January 29, 2025
The Independent
How DeepSeek managed to devastate US tech industry
The Chinese startup inflicted more than 1 trillion in losses, writes Anthony Cuthbertson, with Nvidia suffering the most
2 min |
January 29, 2025
The Independent
Leicester City helicopter crash ruled an accident
Late chair’s son hits out at makers of death trap’ aircraft
3 min |
January 29, 2025
The Independent
‘This war has taken all the most precious things I had’
Scrambling over craters and towering sandbanks, hundreds of thousands of Palestinian families describe the long trek back home to Nedal Hamdouna inside Gaza and Bel Trew
4 min |
January 29, 2025
The Independent
Doomsday Clock a second closer to global annihilation
The world is closer than ever before to total apocalypse, the scientists behind the Doomsday Clock have warned.
3 min |