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Bill Clinton and Michael Jackson pictured as thousands of Epstein files released

<p>Ukraine claimed to have struck a Russian tanker in the Mediterranean</p>
Europe

Ukraine strikes Russian tanker in Mediterranean in ‘unprecedented’ attack

<p>Trump vows to retaliate after ISIS gunman kills three Americans in Syria</p>
Middle East

US launches airstrikes in Syria after ISIS gunman killed 3 Americans

<p>Airports Council International in Brussels is calling for an urgent review of the entry-exit system</p>
travel

Warning as EU entry-exit system causing ‘three-hour waits’ at airports

LiveBoxing

Joshua knocks out Paul after frustration in chaotic heavyweight fight

AJ finally broke down the YouTuber turned boxer after a messy six rounds in Miami

<p>David Walliams is one of the UK’s most successful children’s authors, selling an estimated 60 million copies worldwide</p>
Home News

David Walliams denies inappropriate behaviour claims as he is dropped by publisher

<p>Donald Trump has refused to rule out war with Venezuela</p>
Americas

Trump refuses to rule out going to war with Venezuela

UK Politics

Scrap Rayner’s workers’ rights reforms, Starmer-linked think tank says

<p>Browned off: Brendan O’Carroll on the new ‘Mrs Brown’s Boys’ special </p>
Features

2025’s paltry Christmas Day lineup is not what British TV needs

Kylie Minogue will perform at the Earthshot Prize awards ceremony in Rio (Joe Giddens/PA)
News

Pop icon secures UK Christmas No 1 with ‘genuine festive banger’

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<p>Silverdale in Lancashire (Richard McCarthy/PA)</p>
Home News

Lancashire shaken by earthquake which ‘made a thunder noise’

News

Jeremy Clarkson ‘genuinely frightened’ as he takes ‘first break from TV in 40 years’

<p>Timothée Chalamet<a href="https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=cedc331ac025ea34&rlz=1C5GCCM_en&q=Timothee&si=AMgyJEtULK0SKwwDiAHLrI671RJytqVBKmdpG94FLY1HeXcxdStQYWsJe5W3eBKnet0ST-FWLW48ZahoBGdRhrc266Aoro9PhE2QFL14_ZOXQt-cR6iAP4s%3D&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjnoZvjw8eRAxXZUkEAHapSMtkQyNoBKAB6BAgcEAA&ictx=1"> </a> in ‘Marty Supreme’, a film that is rapidly becoming a cultural phenomenon</p>
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How Timothée Chalamet in Marty Supreme is clapping back at the toxic men of the internet

<p>John Moore and Lucas Borg met for the first time on Easter Sunday</p>
Home News

‘I was abandoned as a baby on Christmas Eve – 80 years later I found my brother living a mile away’

President Donald Trump announced the first-ever 'Patriot Games,' which many social media users likened to the fictional Hunger Games
Alan Rusbridger

The BBC has no choice but to teach Trump a lesson about free speech

<p>Tickets for the new Lumo train will start from £33.10 between London and Glasgow</p>
travel

Budget train company launches new London to Scotland service

safecall appealMissing people

AI deepfakes and armchair sleuths: The families of missing people being trolled

<p>Natasha Walker said her family is repeatedly targeted by impersonators, trolls and conspiracy theorists</p>
<p>Aria Thorpe was found dead in Weston-super-Mare on Monday night</p>
Crime

Family of Aria Thorpe ‘heartbroken’ by death of 9-year-old in stabbing

<p>The water at Red Beach turned crimson this week</p>
travel

Heavy rain turns sea bright red at popular tourist beach

<p>The cows involved in the attacks pictured along the coastal path</p>
Crime

Farmer fined after cow attacks left walkers fearing for their lives

News

Woman pinned face-down in snow then dragged across concrete by ICE

<p>NASCAR Driver Greg Biffle, his wife and their children died Thursday following a plane crash at a North Carolina airport</p>
Americas

Former Nascar driver and family among seven dead in US plane crash

Football

Salah apologises to Liverpool team-mates for bombshell interview

News

Woman pinned face-down in snow then dragged across concrete by ICE

<p>NASCAR Driver Greg Biffle, his wife and their children died Thursday following a plane crash at a North Carolina airport</p>
Americas

Former Nascar driver and family among seven dead in US plane crash

Football

Salah apologises to Liverpool team-mates for bombshell interview

<p>The trailer for Melania’s new documentary, which comes out in January, has just dropped </p>
behind the headlinesLifestyle

In Melania the Movie the most telling details are the ones off screen

<p>The festive gut feeling: December’s real dress code is ‘uncomfortably full’</p>
Features

Feeling the festive bloat? Nutritionist shares 5 foods that actually help

<p>Crown Princess Mette-Marit and Crown Prince Haakon arrive for a gala dinner at the Royal Palace in Oslo </p>
Europe

Crown Princess to undergo lung transplant after health deteriorates

<p>Two carved wooden animal vessels at the Africa Hub</p>
Home News

Why a museum is showcasing thousands of artefacts of unknown origins

Features

<p>Mindy (Ashley Park) and Emily’s (Lily Collins) friendship becomes tenuous over mutual love interest in the fifth season of Netflix’s ‘Emily in Paris’</p>
Lifestyle

Emily in Paris is testing the limits of girl code — and it’s messy

Lifestyle

Emily in Paris is testing the limits of girl code — and it’s messy

<p>Mindy (Ashley Park) and Emily’s (Lily Collins) friendship becomes tenuous over mutual love interest in the fifth season of Netflix’s ‘Emily in Paris’</p>
<p>Mary Novakovich at Grote Markt, the largest Christmas market in Antwerp</p>
travel

This glittering European city has the only Christmas market you need to visit in 2025

<p>2025: the year of rage-bait, nonsensical memes and maddening pop culture moments</p>
Lifestyle

14 pop culture moments that sent the internet into meltdown in 2025

<p>Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried in the campy thriller ‘The Housemaid’</p>
Reviews

Sydney Sweeney has a camp hit on her hands with The Housemaid

Features

The Independent culture team’s favourite songs of 2025

Features

The Independent culture team’s favourite songs of 2025

<p>An average of 2,660 patients per day were in a hospital bed with flu last week</p>
Lifestyle

Should a young healthy person like me get a flu jab?

<p>Tickets for Taylor Swift’s Eras tour cost hundreds of pounds</p>
Lifestyle

From dinner to the theatre: How everything we love got so out of reach

Premium

<p>Jewish schools are now teaching children how to react in the event of an attack on their schools</p>
in focusHome News

Stab vests and kill drills: The children living in terror of being attacked in British schools

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Stab vests and kill drills: The children living in terror of being attacked in British schools

<p>Jewish schools are now teaching children how to react in the event of an attack on their schools</p>
<p>Dino Fetscher (Mary's Teacher) and Mason Alexander Park (Mary Todd Lincoln)</p>
Reviews

Hysterical, captivating Broadway smash Oh Mary! arrives in London

<p>Owen Cooper as Jamie Miller in ‘Adolescence’, which showed the complexities of being a teenage boy today </p>
in focus

Calling teen boys toxic will backfire – there are bigger targets

<p>Rob Reiner with his son Nick in 2016</p>
Lifestyle

The tragic truth about Rob Reiner’s son Nick

<p>‘There is a view that Russia could sue in the courts – which it is threatening to do – and win, leaving the EU and its banks to pick up the enormous tab’</p>
Analysis

Is Putin turning his frozen assets from a weakness into a weapon?

<p>‘There is a view that Russia could sue in the courts – which it is threatening to do – and win, leaving the EU and its banks to pick up the enormous tab’</p>
Analysis

Is Putin turning his frozen assets from a weakness into a weapon?

<p>Nana (Liz Smith) in ‘The Royle Family’ was partial to a bucks fizz, avocaat and eggnogg at Christmas</p>
Features

Viennetta and prawn cocktail: How the ‘council estate’ dinner became cool again

<p>The war in Gaza has seen jihadists such as Isis focus more on Israeli and Jewish targets</p>
World

Isis did not disappear – and a new generation has a terrifying warning

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News

US military launch airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Syria

News

US military launch airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Syria

Syria US Troops Explainer
<p>Jake Paul and Anthony Joshua during a press conference </p>
Sport

This rule change could benefit Jake Paul during Anthony Joshua fight

<p>Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, features in multiple photos within the newly released Jeffrey Epstein case files</p>
News

Ex-Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson in multiple Epstein files photos

<p>Jake Paul and Anthony Joshua face each during a press conference </p>
Sport

Jake Paul vs Anthony Joshua: What are the rules for the Netflix fight?

<p>Anthony Joshua expects to 'outclass' Jake Paul</p>
Sport

The fee Jake Paul and Anthony Joshua could receive for Netflix fight

<p>Anthony Joshua expects to 'outclass' Jake Paul</p>
Sport

The fee Jake Paul and Anthony Joshua could receive for Netflix fight

<p>Social media rumors claimed that the actor and the underground British rapper were the same person</p>
Culture

Timothée Chalamet sets record straight on the EsDeeKid rumors

Sport

Jake Paul reveals the injury he suffered ahead of Anthony Joshua fight

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<p>If Europe acted immediately to protect Ukrainian infrastructure, for example, and fill the space with drones, then the war might more easily be won</p>
Voices

The EU’s €90bn won’t win the war – but Ukraine won’t lose (for now)

Voices

The EU’s €90bn won’t win the war – but Ukraine won’t lose (for now)

<p>If Europe acted immediately to protect Ukrainian infrastructure, for example, and fill the space with drones, then the war might more easily be won</p>
<p>Analysts in the West have argued that Vladimir Putin appears to be actively preparing for conflict with Europe</p>
The Independent View

Ukraine cannot continue to survive on Europe’s starvation rations

<p>Downing Street has scrapped its daily afternoon lobby briefing in a move that journalists warn could damage scrutiny of Keir Starmer’s administration</p>
Voices

It’s beginning to look a lot like Labour is afraid of scrutiny

<p>Line for non-EU citizens at Prague airport</p>
News & Advice

‘The UK got what it wanted’: Readers on long waits at EU borders

<p>Family photographs, including unseen pictures of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, from Frieda Hughes’s personal album</p>
Voices

A poem in memory of my mother, Sylvia Plath

<p>Family photographs, including unseen pictures of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, from Frieda Hughes’s personal album</p>
Voices

A poem in memory of my mother, Sylvia Plath

<p>The Academy Awards will be streamed by YouTube from 2029</p>
Voices

By showing the Oscars, can YouTube bring back Hollywood’s golden age?

<p>It is, to date, France’s most shocking mass rape case</p>
Voices

A year on from Gisèle Pelicot, do men know how women feel about them?

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Trump refuses to rule out going to war with Venezuela: ‘Maduro knows what I want’

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Epstein files live updates: Photos of Bill Clinton in hot tub appear in documents

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Warning as EU entry-exit system causing ‘three-hour waits’ at airports

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Sport

<p>Scotland’s Scott McTominay scores the opening goal during the win over Denmark (Andrew Milligan/PA)</p>
Football

Someone call the police! Scott McTominay has just been robbed

Australia batter Travis Head kisses the ground to celebrate reaching his century (Robbie Stephenson/PA)
Cricket

Head piles misery on England as Australia edge closer to Ashes win

<p>Sebastien Haller scored crucial goals as Ivory Coast won the last edition of Afcon</p>
Football

Ivory Coast hero who survived cancer ruled out of Afcon

<p>Rory McIlroy receives the BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2025 award </p>
Golf

Emotional McIlroy ends ‘dream year’ with the award he wanted all along

Sport

Thierry Henry reflects on BBC SPOTY lifetime achievement award

<p>Dom Taylor failed a drugs test at the tournament </p>
Darts

World Darts Championship suspends player due to failed drugs test

<p>Ruben Amorim’s relationship with Kobbie Mainoo has been under the spotlight</p>
Football

Amorim accuses Man Utd players of being ‘entitled’

<p>Morgan Rogers (centre) has been in stunning form and fired Villa to a ninth win a row at West Ham last weekend </p>
Football

The stats say Aston Villa are lucky – can they really win the league?

Travel

<p>This new charge, announced on Friday, is part of Rome's broader efforts to manage the significant tourist congestion in the area</p>
News & Advice

Visiting the Trevi Fountain? You will now have to pay an entrance fee

News & Advice

Visiting the Trevi Fountain? You will now have to pay an entrance fee

<p>This new charge, announced on Friday, is part of Rome's broader efforts to manage the significant tourist congestion in the area</p>
<p>Pole position: Heathrow airport is expecting its busiest ever Christmas</p>
News & Advice

The Christmas travel chaos to expect this year

<p>American Airlines has introduced a basic economy policy change by stealth</p>
News & Advice

American Airlines makes major change to its basic economy tickets

<p>The 120 rooms at the Ace Hotel in Athens are all design-focused</p>
Athens

I escaped Athens’ bustling centre for a chic, arty stay on the Riviera

<p>Cosy up by the fire at this chic escape in Devon</p>
Devon

This new Devon farm hotel offers a taste of the good life

<p>Cosy up by the fire at this chic escape in Devon</p>
Devon

This new Devon farm hotel offers a taste of the good life

<p>Mara Nyika Camp lies in the private Naboisho Conservancy, guaranteeing fewer tourists and great wildlife-spotting</p>
Kenya

This Maasai Mara safari camp is a wildlife-filled escape

<p>Flight delays are almost welcome in some US airports, such as Portland International</p>
USA

Six US airports that are so good you won’t mind experiencing a delay

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Culture

Celebrity MasterChef 2025 winner left in disbelief after victory

Culture

Celebrity MasterChef 2025 winner left in disbelief after victory

<p>Erika Kirk at TPUSA conference</p>
News

Erika Kirk blames ‘the enemy’ for her iPad containing speech failing

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News

Hakeem Jeffries goes scorched earth on Trump admin over Kennedy Center

Lifestyle

King pulls ‘perfect pint’ as he opens new Guinness brewery

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News

Trump garbles number of military who will get ‘warrior dividend’

<p>TRUMP-CENTRO KENNEDY</p>
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Trump garbles number of military who will get ‘warrior dividend’

News

Putin asked about existence of aliens: ‘This is secret information’

News

Vinette Robinson supports The Independent’s SafeCall campaign

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The best supermarket champagne handpicked by experts

Wine

The best supermarket champagne handpicked by experts

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Boxing Day Sales

Best deals to expect in Currys Boxing Day sale 2025, picked by experts

<p>The discounts will soon land in-store and online </p>
Boxing Day Sales

Is there an M&S boxing day sale 2025? All we know, from dates to deals

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Boxing Day Sales

Everything you need to know about Next’s Boxing Day 2025 sale

<p>Here’s where you can buy the cheapest Christmas dinner for eight people this year</p>
Food

The cheapest supermarket to buy Christmas dinner from is £2 a head

<p>Here’s where you can buy the cheapest Christmas dinner for eight people this year</p>
Food

The cheapest supermarket to buy Christmas dinner from is £2 a head

Health & Families

Amazfit’s $99 helio strap vs Whoop: Which fitness tracker is better?

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<p>Here’s where you can buy the cheapest Christmas dinner for eight people this year</p>
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The cheapest supermarket to buy Christmas dinner from is £2 a head

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gaming

How does Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade demo really run on Nintendo Switch 2?

How does Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade demo really run on Nintendo Switch 2?

lifestyle

The most controversial fashion trend of the 2010s is making its comeback

politics

'Mar-a-Lago Face' is a problematic talking point - no matter which side of politics you're on

politics

Trump’s White House ballroom price keeps going up: 'This is Trumpflation'

gaming

Unrecord: Viral photorealistic bodycam shooter gets investment and gamers are stoked

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Unrecord: Viral photorealistic bodycam shooter gets investment and gamers are stoked

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TikTok is coming up with solutions on how to beat the 'winter uglies’ and we're invested

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The Elder Scrolls 6 gets update from studio boss but gamers are frustrated

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