Community spirit in Sutton on Sea has been praised after a missing 25-year-old tortoise returned home. Bonnie, a leopard tortoise weighing 2st (13kg) disappeared from her pen on Tuesday but reappeared ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Donald Trump's state visit was looking controversial enough. It is now happening off the back of a scandal that's claimed the scalp of the prime minister's man in Washington. That is more than ...

Lord Peter Mandelson could be stripped of his post as the High Steward of Hull. The key figure in Tony Blair's New Labour regime has been sacked as the UK's ambassador to the US after emails and other ...

Lord Mandelson confided in Jeffrey Epstein that he was facing a “terrible situation” in his private life and pleaded for his loyalty. The email sent by Lord Mandelson to Epstein suggests that the peer ...

Aircraft carrier deployments are set to be transformed in the future. First Sea Lord Sir Gwyn Jenkins issued the first target for the new Hybrid Combat Air Wing, which will change how HMS Prince of ...

Deposed Nepal PM KP Sharma Oli accused India of engineering his ouster for challenging it on sensitive issues like the Lipulekh border dispute and Lord Ram’s birthplace. In a letter, Oli claimed he ...