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Defence secretary John Healey has offered a "sincere apology” following a data breach that put the lives of nearly 100,000 Afghans at risk of being killed by the Taliban. Speaking to MPs in parliament ...

Fortnite is offline after the game was taken down for “maintenance”. The game had been taken down on Tuesday morning for a ...

Scarlet uniforms cut a striking figure against the River Thames this week as the annual five-day census of King Charles III ’s swans, known as Swan Upping, commenced. At such a critical moment in US ...

After a leak from the Ministry of Defence, officials faced a race to keep up to 100,000 Afghans from the Taliban’s clutches – ...

Hundreds of Indigenous youth have gathered in Colombia's conflict-hit reserve of Las Delicias, in Cauca, for a biannual ...

In an interview with ‘The Independent’, Rhidian Brooke also revealed Bob Geldof’s tongue-in-cheek four-letter reaction to the poem filled with famous song lyrics ...

Time-poor gardeners should skip the high-maintenance annual plants that always require watering and deadheading; they’re ...

Japan has established a new administrative body to address the impacts of over-tourism and other issues related to foreign nationals, following a record 36.8 million tourists in 2024.

Morgan Gibbs-White trained with Nottingham Forest today as his transfer to Tottenham continues to stall. The England international was set for a medical in north London on Friday after Spurs were ...