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Saracens find old fighting spirit to terrify Toulouse
Perhaps the days of Saracens as an Investec Champions Cup force are not quite as distant as they had seemed.
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January 12, 2026
The Independent
THE X FACTOR
With six different cohorts now in the workplace, it's now the supposed slacker generation that's quietly running the show – and they're well suited to the task
6 min |
January 12, 2026
The Independent
PM could send military to Greenland on Nato mission
Sir Keir Starmer is considering sending British troops to Greenland as Donald Trump’s rhetoric over snatching the Danish territory continues to ratchet up.
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January 12, 2026
The Independent
Defence spending lost to MoD overdraft, warns chief
The former head of the RAF has warned that increased defence spending in the UK is being “eaten up by the Ministry of Defence (MoD)’s overdraft” with the UK’s military footprint shrinking at a critical moment.
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January 12, 2026
The Independent
Wegovy to launch stronger dose weight-loss jabs in UK
The UK's medicines regulator has approved a stronger dose of the weight loss jab Wegovy as demand for the drug is set to soar.
2 min |
January 12, 2026
The Independent
Big Pharma bloodsuckers get rich from nit merry-go-round
Whenever I drop into a local pharmacy in Notting Hill, the staff look at me with huge sympathy. “Not again?”
4 min |
January 12, 2026
The Independent
Tehran threatens retaliatory strikes on US military bases
Iran has threatened to attack US military targets if Donald Trump launches strikes over the country’s growing protests.
4 min |
January 12, 2026
The Independent
Tears are not enough in this Shakespearean fan fiction
Poised to sweep Oscar season, Chloé Zhao's 'Hamnet' is less a masterpiece than a blunt spade designed to whack you over the head until you weep from the pain
5 min |
January 12, 2026
The Independent
Mandelson refuses apology for friendship with Epstein
Peter Mandelson has refused to apologise to victims of Jeffrey Epstein for his friendship with the convicted paedophile and financier.
3 min |
January 12, 2026
The Independent
ON THIS DAY
1628: Charles Perrault, French writer and collector of fairy tales, was born in Paris.
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January 12, 2026
The Independent
That's what friends are for
Despite myths that marriage and motherhood divide women, many friendships deepen in our thirties, becoming steadier and more intentional through life's trials
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January 12, 2026
The Independent
Reeves has already 'spent £3bn of £22bn headroom'
Fears have been raised that Rachel Reeves may have already spent up to £3bn of the £22bn headroom she gave herself in the Budget in just six weeks.
3 min |
January 12, 2026
The Independent
Inside the UK's only arts centre dedicated to children
In a maze made of giant playing cards and filled with enormous chess pieces, half a dozen children are laughing and trying to find a way out.
5 min |
January 12, 2026
The Independent
Odds-defying world title win flew under the radar
Sheffield's Dalton Smith became just the fifth current British male world champion with little fanfare, writes Steve Bunce, but the fallout from his New York victory could be substantial
3 min |
January 12, 2026
The Independent
A baby ruined our business flight - were we mis-sold?
Q For an overnight flight from Orlando in April, we treated ourselves to a business class flight.
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January 12, 2026
The Independent
Sorry United crash out in third-round of the FA Cup
For those, certain former managers perhaps included, who think Manchester United occupy too much space in the discourse, it is more than a century, world wars excepted, since they last took up so little room in the fixture list.
3 min |
January 12, 2026
The Independent
Denmark's dark Greenland legacy still scars islanders
Donald Trump has his sights on Greenland but the residents are wary of swapping one foreign influence for another one. Katie Rosseinsky explores its relationship with Denmark
7 min |
January 12, 2026
The Independent
Fake videos shared by Musk received millions of views
Within hours of Donald Trump's announcement that Venezuela's president had been captured, social media was flooded with AI-generated media.
5 min |
January 12, 2026
The Independent
Hope for justice as court hears case for genocide against Rohingya people
Nearly 750,000 people fled Myanmar in 2017 as government forces tore through Rohingya villages, killing thousands of civilians, leaving a trail of alleged abuses and sexual violence.
4 min |
January 12, 2026
The Independent
Martinelli goes from villain to hero with cup hat-trick
Gabriel Martinelli hit the headlines for the right reasons by scoring a hat-trick as Arsenal overcame an early scare to thrash Championship strugglers Portsmouth 4-1 in the FA Cup third round.
2 min |
January 12, 2026
The Independent
Trump promised to end America's wars, instead it's acting like rogue superpower
Albeit for the wrong reasons, no one could deny that Donald Trump is an extraordinary US president. His disregard for the US Constitution and due process, the multi-billion-dollar grift, the vulgar, petty insults, and the abuse of longstanding allies are clearly not normal.
3 min |
January 12, 2026
The Independent
What 'AI slop' is really doing to doubting Gen Alpha kids
I'm arguing about football with my six-year-old grandson, a Chelsea fan. I'm trying to convert him to a proper team - Nottingham Forest. I show him black-and-white footage of my team's glory days, winning two European Cups in the 1980s.
2 min |
January 12, 2026
The Independent
Nobel committee blocks peace prize transfer before Machado-Trump meeting
The organisers of the Nobel Peace Prize have told winner María Corina Machado it “cannot be revoked, shared or transferred” after she suggested giving Donald Trump her 2025 award. The institute said in a statement the decision to award a Nobel Prize is \"final and stands for all time\", citing the statutes of the Nobel Foundation, which do not allow appeals.
2 min |
January 12, 2026
The Independent
Message to the Met: sexual predators are still on your force, they're just lying low
London’s Metropolitan Police has admitted serious historical errors in vetting after a damning internal review exposed systemic failures in recruitment and background checks over the past decade - lapses that saw thousands of officers and staff join or remain in the force without proper scrutiny and, in some cases, later engage in criminal behaviour or misconduct.
4 min |
January 12, 2026
The Independent
Three teenagers among four killed in serious car crash
Three teenagers and a taxi driver are believed to have been killed in a head-on crash in Greater Manchester.
2 min |
January 12, 2026
The Independent
‘Some things have gone all around Europe and back’
More than two years have passed since the British Museum revealed it was missing many hundreds of precious artefacts. Alex Ross spoke to the team tasked with tracking them down
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January 12, 2026
The Independent
Embattled regime faces its gravest existential threat
Tehran has resorted to brutal violence to crush an uprising that is only going to get even more bloody
4 min |
January 12, 2026
The Independent
Macclesfield stun Palace in FA Cup upset for the ages
Non-league Macclesfield produced one of the greatest FA Cup shocks of all time by knocking out holders Crystal Palace in a stunning 2-1 upset at Moss Rose.
3 min |
January 11, 2026
The Independent
Caribbean island helped to ease my midlife loneliness
After feeling anxious and isolated at home, a solo trip to Tobago taught Minreet Kaur the power of human connection
5 min |
January 11, 2026
The Independent
Trump's 'morality' raises nightmare of ghosts past
The US president's belligerence is causing real fear in South America, reports Sam Kiley from Colombian capital Bogota
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