Tapia was crazy, but he could still fight when he made his York Hall debut

The father of a young protester who was killed during the crackdown on the 1989 pro-democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square has hanged himself after more than 20 years of seeking justice for his son, a human rights group said yesterday.

Emma Gray made headlines with a book chronicling her solitary life on a Northumberland farm miles from civilisation - and the opposite sex. So could Jonathan Brown be the answer to her prayers?

Britain's hotels have been rated among the best in the world by holidaymakers after eight consecutive year-on-year improvements in customers ratings.

Euro 2012 kicks-off in just a couple of weeks and in anticipation The Independent is running down the key factors and people to keep an eye on in Poland and Ukraine this summer.

It is one of the city's highest profile crimes in history and helped launch a missing children's movement across the United States.

Just think how hard it must be to be loaded. All that tax and grief from poor people about greed. And then there are the trials of love. Just how do you find a partner if you're a multimillionaire?

A two and a half minute first trailer for Baz Luhrmann’s highly anticipated film adaptation of The Great Gatsby has been released.

The wills of millions of famous Britons including Florence Nightingale and Winston Churchill are being published online for the first time.

Hundreds of body parts have been pointlessly kept by police for years after suspicious death cases were solved, an audit showed today.

A despot so funny he gives offensiveness a good name

A stately diversion en route to the coast

Most stars enjoy giving two fingers to music critics. But Adele has admitted that the writers who told her to raise her game helped her score a double triumph at the Ivor Novello awards.

It is the first time in London for American comedian Mike Birbiglia, for either work or play. "Why have you never been before?" interviewers have asked him in advance of his two week run, to which he has replied "Have you been expecting me?"