Day In a Page
Tuesday, 9 October 2012
Jump to:
News
News RSS Feed - click to grab the feedScience
- Serge Haroche and David Wineland awarded Nobel Prize in Physics
- SpaceX Dragon capsule: Cargo ship reaches International Space Station
- Two American scientists win Nobel chemistry prize for understanding how the billions of cells within the human body communicate with the outside world
- Private rocket blasts off for ISS
Voices
Voices RSS Feed - click to grab the feedComment
- The moment Ken Clarke leaves office, his encouraging legacy goes out the window
- Rod Stewart's book is the gift that keeps on giving
- Why I'm committed to preserving the write stuff
- Diary: Why the Tories won't be calling the cops and what David Cameron shares with Paul Ryan
- His conference speech was statesmanlike, resolute and human. But David Cameron is beset by perils
- I’ve got the builders in. And they’re cooking better than Nigella
- I represented Abu Hamza in his extradition proceedings. Why is he being tried in America?
- UN Day of the Girl: What will it take to invest in a female future?
- Forget all those 'polite' landscape paintings and let the great Kurt Jackson show you how to do it
- Waste not, want not: The Western culture of binning food
- Sarah Brightman, alien life-forms and why, in space, no one should have to hear you scream
- Zac Goldsmith, conservation and the latest from Tory opponents of gay marriage in Birmingham
- Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, and why the need to be liked can still determine a presidential election
- Only by coming together can students and trade unions fight the Coalition's failing austerity
- Wonga is no legal loan shark - and Newcastle is in the right to accept their cash
- Today's wacky web stories: Elevator anxiety, the Sarah Palin diet and John Lennon's letters
- Jewish Mum of the Year: Yet another TV programme which supports stereotypes
- Theresa May's crime and punishment: you decide
- Jimmy Savile's charities should close down and give their money to others
- David Cameron's speech to Tory Party conference was boring, well delivered and basically irrelevant
- Boris Johnson: I'm in favour of gay marriage and I can't see what all the fuss is about
- World Mental Health Day: I battled depression for six years, I didn't just 'get over it' overnight
- Justin Lee Collins and the complex nature of partner abuse
- Why are they trending? David Cameron, Mark Bridger, Gwen Stefani
- As Jimmy Savile's gravestone is removed at the request of his family, we should question whether we live in a civilised society
- What the removal of a headstone for Sir Jimmy Savile says about our justice system and his family
- Sketch: He praised PMs past and present, but it was all about Boris's future
- Biden-Ryan could be more than a sideshow
- Peaches Geldof joins the Independent Voices campaign to legalise same-sex marriage in Britain
- Diary: Mensch the pantomime villain and Aidan Burley at a Nazi-themed stag party
- A question for Chris Grayling. As a 5ft4in woman, what legal options for self-defence do I have against a 6ft burglar? Honestly, I'd love to know
- In the age of Facebook, insulting April Jones comes with a heavy price - as Matthew Woods is finding out
- It's not just the Tories gathered in Birmingham who know Boris Johnson is unstoppable now
- Schools should think twice before banning parents from the sports-field
- Children know what real words are; teachers mustn’t mislead them
- Why do the likes of Jimmy Savile, Fred Goodwin and Rupert Murdoch get away with it for so long?
- Politics means nothing when deficits have to be cut
- Azhar Ahmed, a tasteless Facebook update, and more evidence of Britain's terrifying new censorship
- Victory in the great schools battle
- Of Gollywogs (honestly), absent chief whips, and how not to cut £10bn from the welfare budget
- A Jewish perspective on same-sex marriage
- I'm straight and about to get married - how much sweeter a deal if opportunities were equal
- Disaster tourism: how bus trips to the scene of Hurricane Katrina make profit from loss
- How many more, George? Ruth Anim and Liam Barker - different disabilities, very similar situations
- Fortnum & Mason’s shame exposed: Selling foie gras is indefensible
- Why are they trending? IMF, #HappyBirthdayJohnLennon, #cpc12, George Osborne
- Today's wacky web stories: Virtual genocide, Jay-Z rides the subway and the real Halloween horror!
- 'Slut dropping' and 'Pimps and Hoes' - the sexual politics of freshers' week
- YouTube's hall of homophobia shame
IV Drip
- Olivia Wilde on divorce: "I felt like my vagina died"
- VIDEO: Is TV advertising sexist?
- Cab driver finds $220,000 dollars, subverts expectations
- Don't knock Paul Ryan's Medicare plan
- Is the term "bullying" overused?
- Romney's hollow foreign policy
- What did his text mean? We can help!
- Man dies after bug-eating contest
- Teenager downs nitrogen drink, nearly dies
Sport
Sport RSS Feed - click to grab the feedGolf
- Golf chief apologises after headbutting journalist before Tiger Woods match at the Turkish Open
- McIlroy and Woods both lose to deepen Turkish despair at first-tee fracas
- Why is the Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods show in Turkey?
- Rory McIlroy must beat Tiger Woods to reach last four in Turkey
- Grace misses out on hat-trick
Tennis
- Andy Murray advances in Shanghai after Florian Mayer withdraws with injury
- Tomic troubles show why this is now no game for young men
- Rafael Nadal admits return from injury this year unlikely
- Murray-Djokovic practice pulls in the crowds
- Laura Robson through to second round in Osaka
- Novak Djokovic a threat to Roger Federer hitting 300 weeks as world number one
Travel
Travel RSS Feed - click to grab the feedNews & Advice
- Travellers warned they may face typhoid risk as vaccine is recalled
- The 10 Best hi-vis gear
- School's out for the sunshine
- Deals of the week: Prague, Scotland, Caribbean
- Get me out of here: Chicago, Iceland, Cervinia
- Forget Disneyland Paris. Now it's Paramount World … Swanscombe
- London hit by record 20 per cent slump in visits
- 1 Stoke City investigate 'religious abuse' after 'pig's head is found in Kenwyne Jones' locker'
- 2 Heading for America? Prepare for the longest US immigration queues ever
- 3 Amir Khan interview: 'One second could end my boxing career'
- 4 Groundhog day looms for Arsène Wenger as Arsenal battle for a place in the Champions League on final day
- 5 Join Ryanair! See the world! But we'll only pay you for nine months a year
Get your summer started with British Military Fitness
BMF is the UK’s biggest and best loved outdoor fitness classes
Visit York
Find out what The Independent's resident travel expert has to say about one of the most beautiful small cities in the world
Enter the latest Independent competitions
Win anything from gadgets to five-star holidays on our competitions and offers page.
Business videos from commercial thought leaders
Watch the best in the business world give their insights into the world of business.







