The Election Commission has told the Supreme Court that any direction to conduct special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls at regular intervals throughout the country would "encroach" upon ...

A British comedy legend has revealed the details of the moment he was held at gunpoint by armed guards in Venezuela. Sir Michael Palin was detained by the totalitarian country’s intelligence service ...

The special performance marks the 50th anniversary of the Queen song The 2025 BBC Proms season concludes in celebratory style with the Last Night of the Proms on Saturday 13 September at the Royal ...

The Silver Ferns coach saga continues, with little to no information being available around what led to Dame Noeline Taurua being stood down from the national side ahead of the Taini Jamison Trophy ...

Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad Al Thani was linked with a Manchester United takeover before Sir Jim Ratcliffe bought the club. However, with United having slumped to a 15th-placed Premier League finish under ...

Royalty-free licenses let you pay once to use copyrighted images and video clips in personal and commercial projects on an ongoing basis without requiring additional payments each time you use that ...

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From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Sir Kenneth Branagh is returning to the Royal Shakespeare Company for the first time in more than three decades, in what the RSC's artistic directors are calling a "once-in-a-generation theatrical ...

A secret memo in which Lord Mandelson urged then-prime minister Sir Tony Blair to meet Jeffrey Epstein has been kept under wraps by officials, it's claimed. The note, believed to have been written in ...

A man who was “extraordinary in so many ways” is how friends are remembering the American-born researcher and campaigner Sir Robert Worcester who made his life in Kent. Sir Robert, who was the founder ...