General election

UK Politics

Rishi Sunak to offer tax cuts as he admits buying home has become harder under Tories

Tory leader will today try to revive his party’s fortunes with a tax cutting manifesto

LiveUK Politics

Tories aim to save ailing campaign with 2p national insurance cut

<p>Shadow health secretary and the MP for Ilford North, Wes Streeting (Jordan Pettitt/PA)</p>

UK Politics

Labour calls Tory manifesto ‘most expensive panic attack in history’

<p>Cranleigh is among the most affluent villages in the country - yet it has won a levelling-up grant for its village hall </p>

UK News

Why one of UK’s richest villages has won a £300k levelling-up grant

<p>Justice Secretary Alex Chalk announced the antisocial behaviour move (Lucy North/PA)</p>

Exclusive

Justice secretary’s fight to protect ECHR in Sunak’s Tory manifesto

UK Politics

Brits blame Brexit for public services decline more than Covid

News

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Initial post-mortem reveals time and cause of Michael Mosley’s death on Greek island

Tech

What is Apple intelligence? The new AI tools for your iPhone

A sign is posted in front of the 23andMe headquarters on 1 February 2024 in Sunnyvale, California

UK News

Investigation into 23andMe DNA data breach

UK Politics

Meet AI Steve: The bot-driven politician using artificial intelligence on the campaign trail

<p>‘I just tell the truth all the time, and I can’t help it. It upsets people sometimes. But hell, if the truth upsets you I can’t really help that’ </p>

interviewmusic

Chaka Khan: ‘I told Stevie Wonder, I don’t like it – what else you got?’

The ‘Ain’t Nobody’ singer talks to Stevie Chick about the rap at the start of ‘I Feel for You’, her years battling drug addiction and alcoholism and her collaboration with Sia

<p>In this photo provided by the United Nations, members of the UN Security Council vote to approve its first resolution endorsing a cease-fire plan aimed at ending the eight-month war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, Monday, 10 June 2024</p>

Middle East

UN Security Council backs Biden’s ceasefire plan for Gaza

Tech

Elon Musk says he could ban Apple devices at his companies

<p>Turf war: the sparring couple with their two-type lawn </p>

Lifestyle

Forget fights over the thermostat, ‘lawn wars’ is the new battle of the sexes

Guy Walters is a man who loves to mow and he’s married to Annabel Venning, a woman who likes her grass to grow… cue a very modern marital showdown (but who is right?)

<p>Energy drinks are often marketed at teenagers </p>

Lifestyle

Why energy drinks are the ultimate ick

<p>Two 12-year-old boys have been found guilty of murdering Shawn Seesahai (pictured) </p>

Crime

Social media messages boy killer sent girlfriend after machete murder

<p>Queen Alexandra Hospital is run by Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust </p>

Health

NHS cyber attack causing chaos in London hits other hospitals in UK

<p>Donald Trump has described Taylor Swift as “unusually beautiful” </p>

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Donald Trump says Taylor Swift is ‘unusually beautiful’ but ‘liberal’

Updates: Biden campaign seizes on Trump’s ‘I don’t care about you’ line

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Donald Trump says Taylor Swift is ‘unusually beautiful’ but ‘liberal’

The former US president and convicted felon was interviewed about his time on ‘The Apprentice’ for a new book

Updates: Biden campaign seizes on Trump’s ‘I don’t care about you’ line

China

Four US college instructors stabbed in public park

Football

Rodri, Pedri and the midfield puzzle to decide Spain’s Euro 2024 fate

<p>‘Strictly Come Dancing’ star Giovanni Pernice</p>

TV

Giovanni Pernice axed from Strictly Come Dancing 2024 lineup

<p>Earl Spencer is the brother of the late Diana, Princess of Wales</p>

Royal Family

Police investigate historical abuse at Earl Spencer’s boarding school

Royal Family

Police investigate historical abuse at Earl Spencer’s boarding school

<p>Taylor Swift performing on stage during her Eras Tour at Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh (Jane Barlow/PA)</p>

Crime

Man, 64, charged with voyeurism at Taylor Swift concert

<p>Shawn Seesahai was fatally stabbed with a machete in Wolverhampton in November 2023</p>

Crime

Two 12-year-old boys who murdered stranger with machete are 'UK's youngest knife killers'

<p>Jordan Bardella (left) has been compared to French film star Yves Montand </p>

Europe

Who is Jordan Bardella? Marine Le Pen’s protege with film star looks

The president of the far-right National Rally party is seeking to derail Emmanuel Macron’s government

Europe

Who is Jordan Bardella? Marine Le Pen’s protege with film star looks

The president of the far-right National Rally party is seeking to derail Emmanuel Macron’s government

Lifestyle

Geri Horner reverts to maiden name in new Dior video

<p>Leonardo DiCaprio in ‘The Departed'</p>

Features

The 31 most mind-blowing twists in film history

Music

Paloma Faith recalls tense exchange with fellow The Voice coach

Space

ISS astronauts exposed to mutant superbugs that evolved in space

Space

ISS astronauts exposed to mutant superbugs that evolved in space

<p>Hunter Biden departs from federal court in Wilmington, Delaware on June 10</p>

LiveUS politics

Hunter Biden defence undermines testimony of ‘poor Hallie’

<p>Coronation Street actor William Roache has settled his outstanding tax bill with HMRC (Ian West/PA)</p>

Home News

Coronation Street star Bill Roache spared bankruptcy

UK Politics

Meet AI Steve: The bot-driven politician trying to overhaul politics

Steve Endacott attracted just 487 votes as a Conservative councillor in 2022 but will AI Steve boost his chances for the general election?

UK Politics

Meet AI Steve: The bot-driven politician trying to overhaul politics

Steve Endacott attracted just 487 votes as a Conservative councillor in 2022 but will AI Steve boost his chances for the general election?

<p>Moby: ‘I’ve simply stopped seeing music as a job’</p>

Features

Moby: ‘You can’t do anything without offending someone’

Mapped

Pollen warnings for hay fever sufferers as Met Office issues alerts

<p>Festivalgoers arrive at Glastonbury’s site in 2019</p>

Music

Glastonbury organisers share important message about camping

<p>This image provided by Seaside Aquarium shows a hoodwinker sunfish that washed ashore on June 3, 2024, on a beach in Gearhart, Ore</p>

Americas

Huge rare sea creature washed up on beach could be there for weeks

Americas

Huge rare sea creature washed up on beach could be there for weeks

<p>Senator Bob Casey (right) has been friends with Joe Biden for years, while his father, Bob Casey Sr (left) was one of the strongest opponents of abortion in the Democratic Party</p>

US politics

He used to be an anti-abortion Democrat. Now he’s Biden’s secret weapon

<p>Eva Evans is being praised for making “hilarious” yet respectful jokes about the LGBT+ community during a recent show</p>

News

Comedian applauded for properly ‘cracking jokes’ about LGBT+ community

Pride month

LGBT+

The Independent Pride List 2024: the LGBT+ people making change happen

The Independent’s Pride List is back again, celebrating the LGBT+ community’s biggest change-makers over the past 12 months

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<p>Dr Michael Mosley first found fame with his revolutionary 5:2 diet </p>

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‘Michael Mosley told me how his own health battles drove him on’

From the daily routine Mosley kept with his wife, to fighting insomnia and reversing his type 2 diabetes, Maria Lally, who regularly talked to the presenter, reflects on the man who always lived by the rules that he set for others, changing not only his own health but that of a generation...

In focus

‘Michael Mosley told me how his own health battles drove him on’

From the daily routine Mosley kept with his wife, to fighting insomnia and reversing his type 2 diabetes, Maria Lally, who regularly talked to the presenter, reflects on the man who always lived by the rules that he set for others, changing not only his own health but that of a generation...

Maria Lally