Independent

As Emily Ratajkowski makes headlines for her high-profile pregnancy announcement and Chrissy Teigen elicits criticism for posting about baby...

Candles have gone from being purely functional to objects of modern social media desire. Sophie Gallagher asks how lockdown and a pandemic s...

Rescue workers have extricated a 70-year-old man from a collapsed building in western Turkey, some 34 hours after a strong earthquake in the...

Australia has recorded no new locally transmitted coronavirus infection for the first time in five months

Lockdown may be the perfect time to sharpen your listening skills, which are arguably more important than mastering that sourdough loaf, wri...

President Donald Trump is counting on his ability to turn out big crowds to translate into votes as he wraps up the final days of the campai...

Hong Kong police have arrested seven people over scuffles that broke out in the city's legislature earlier this year during a faceoff betwee...

Australia has recorded no new locally transmitted coronavirus infection for the first time in five months

‘Folks - so sorry that you’ve had to hear about all this from the newspapers today’, PM wrote to MPs

‘Three days until the most important election of our lifetime – including mine – which was pretty important’

The incumbent premier of Queensland has won a third consecutive term in Australian state elections in which voters strongly endorsed her gov...

John Rentoul on questions of style and usage in last week’s Independent

Only a failing political system could produce a president like Trump and it cannot be restored by an establishment figure like Biden, explai...

In the first of a new series, Will Gore sees his home improvement hopes turn to dust and despair

As afternoons darken, it is time to reconsider our lamps and lights, writes Anya Cooklin-Lofting

We can all do with a bit of escapism at the moment, and perhaps a happy ending will help us through these tough months, writes Angela Haupt

The cult series by Lee Child has a new co-writer – his younger brother, Andrew. And he comes with questionable plot decisions and personalit...

The late Connecticut priest who founded the Knights of Columbus has moved a step closer to possible sainthood

Officials say a super typhoon slammed into the eastern Philippines with “catastrophic violent winds” early Sunday and about a million people...

New restrictions described as ‘painful’ but ‘logical’ following widespread transmission of Covid-19

'We've got a situation going on because someone didn't handle their business right’

Spain is the only European country to have recorded more infections

Thousands of Israelis have protested in Jerusalem as part of the latest weekly demonstration against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his...

Over the last two weeks, Ohio has repeatedly broken daily records in numbers of new coronavirus cases. 

Halloween parades, parties and haunted houses were cancelled as the coronavirus pandemic left its mark on the holiday and its traditions thi...