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Doctor Who announcement: Has Rankin given fans a clue to the identity of the new Doctor?
Sunday 04 August 2013
Photographer may have accidentally let slip that Gallifrey's finest will still be played by a man
'Your country needs you': The myth of the most iconic World War I emblem
Saturday 03 August 2013
The picture of Lord Kitchener has long been regarded as the poster that encouraged young men to join the army, but this may just be a popular myth
Caught on camera: National Geographic announces the winners of its 2013 traveller photo competition
Friday 02 August 2013
National Geographic Traveler Magazine has announced the winners of its prestigious photography competition which showcases the planet in all its diversity.
1 in 12 have taken a sneaky picture of an attractive stranger, so who else do you photograph?
Friday 02 August 2013
Creepy statistic of the week:
Edinburgh 2013 review: Fleabag, Underbelly, Cowgate
Friday 02 August 2013
The last time Phoebe Waller-Bridge appeared on stage, in Jack Thorne’s Mydidae, she was naked in a bathroom and going through her ablutions. In her hot new solo show for Edinburgh, she’s no less startling or revealing but she does keep her clothes on.
Review: Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom
Thursday 01 August 2013
David Phelan takes a look at Samsung's new phone-camera
One in twelve UK adults admit they photograph attractive strangers on public transport, in the park or at the doctor's surgery claims poll
Thursday 01 August 2013
The survey also claims that almost seven million people in the UK have admitted to taking an intimate picture of themselves
Autographer camera launches: Snap 2,000 pics a day without lifting a finger
Wednesday 31 July 2013
Device will sell for £399.99 and aims to capture the "unseen and authentic" moments of your life
Just one minute to end 10-year marriage: Nigella Lawson and Charles Saatchi granted decree nisi
Wednesday 31 July 2013
They now have to wait for a decree absolute, usually issued six weeks and a day later
May they all rest in peace: Funeral for 38 victims of Italian bus crash
Tuesday 30 July 2013
Relatives wept and clutched coffins draped with flowers at a mass funeral held in Italy for the 38 victims who died in Sunday’s bus crash.
Police accused of using ‘excessive force’ during Balcombe fracking protest
Tuesday 30 July 2013
Officers told to justify painful 'mandibular angle' technique using pressure point behind ear
Anthony Weiner campaign for New York mayorship in turmoil as key advisor walks out
Sunday 28 July 2013
If there was anything to admire about Anthony Weiner’s bid to be the next Mayor of New York, it was his aides’ extraordinary success in taking their candidate to a lead in the polls, despite his embarrassing history of extramarital sexting.
Photography book review: Time & Tide - Photographs from Praia Piquinia, By Christian Chaize with an introduction by Jen Bekman
Sunday 28 July 2013
Featuring colourful beach umbrellas and dreamy blue horizons, this beautiful oversized book offers a breath of fresh air, and evokes fantasies of Mediterranean travel.
Series: Images from the Somme
Sunday 28 July 2013
Since 2009, The Independent has been publishing a series of “lost images” of British and Commonwealth soldiers of the First World War, taken from glass photographic plates which have come to light in attics or barns or rubbish skips in the Somme.
- 1 Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
- 2 Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
- 3 US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
- 4 Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
- 5 Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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