A teacher has been banned from teaching for life after hitting a pupil with a ruler. Farooq Ahmed, 58, was handed a police ...

Madeleine McCann’s sister has told a court she “always knew” that a woman who claimed to be the missing girl was not her sibling. Amelie McCann received a string of messages from Julia Wandelt in ...

Withdrawing the UK from the European Convention on Human Rights has become a defining issue for political parties ...

Metropolitan Police say 68-year-old is accused of offences against seven different women as young as 17 years old ...

Prime minister to hold meetings on the use of digital ID cards on two-day trade trip to India, where they have already been ...

Nearly a fifth (19 per cent) of employees secretly juggle two competing jobs, a practice termed "polygamous working", with ...

The Independent ’s former chief photographer, Brian Harris, has died aged 73 after a short battle with cancer. He joined the ...

A former GP who has been jailed for attempting to murder his mother’s partner with a fake Covid jab has admitted another plot ...

Pope Leo XIV has delivered a stark condemnation of the wealthy elite, accusing them of living in a "bubble of comfort and ...

It is the picture which showed the true horror of the second-world war – a man blithely shooting Jewish prisoners and ...

Palestinians in Gaza have welcomed the news of an agreement on the first phase of a peace plan between Israel and Hamas ...

The Australian tactician, who guided Northampton Town back to League One, talks to Miguel Delaney about his management ...