Cardboard boxes put on pupils’ heads to stop cheating in exams at Indian school

‘This is inhuman and a civilised society will never accept such an idea,’ says local education board | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 5 years ago

Explorers find wreck of Japanese WWII aircraft carrier sunk in Battle of Midway

‘You see the damage these things took, and it’s humbling to watch some of the video of these vessels because they’re war graves,’ historian says | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 5 years ago

Qatar now so hot it has started air-conditioning the outdoors

Giant coolers in public areas accelerating climate crisis further by using electricity from fossil fuels | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 5 years ago

Three (UK mobile network) down

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@independent.co.uk | 5 years ago

Three Network Down in the UK

No details are available on provider’s website, main Twitter page or its support account | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 5 years ago

Turkey ‘effectively holding 50 US nuclear bombs hostage’ at air base

White House officials scrambling to retrieve weapons of mass destruction, reports say | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 5 years ago

Extinction Rebellion Blockade Google HQ

Latest updates as climate activists launch legal action against Metropolitan Police | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 5 years ago

NASA found evidence of life on Mars in the 1970s, former scientist says

‘It seemed we had answered that ultimate question’ | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 5 years ago

Banerjee, Duflo and Kremer Win Nobel Economics Prize for Approach to Poverty

Ms Duflo becomes only second woman to win economics prize since it was first awarded in 1969 | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 5 years ago

Warren runs ‘fake’ FB ad attacking Zuckerberg over inaction on misinformation

‘They’re deliberately allowing a candidate to intentionally lie to the American people’ | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 5 years ago

Ecological disaster taking toll on scientists’ mental health

‘We’re documenting destruction of world’s most beautiful ecosystems, it’s impossible to be detached’ | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 5 years ago

UN to run out of money by end of month

Peace-keeping missions at risk and staff warned to expect default on salaries as member states hold off paying annual fee | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 5 years ago

World’s super-rich hit by private jet pilot shortage

Flyers flee to budget airlines for better pay | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 5 years ago

Russia used social media to support Trump in 2016 at direction of Kremlin

Report says Russians were 'masquerading as Americans' and undermining Hillary Clinton's candidacy in support of Donald Trump | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 5 years ago

Falling pound doesn't help UK exports

Economists predict the pound will have lost a quarter of its pre-referendum value after a no-deal Brexit, and some people want you to think that’s a good thing | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 5 years ago

Farmer studied law for 16 years to sue company dumping hazardous waste

Wang Englin paid in sacks of corn to copy out legal information by hand in a bookshop | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 5 years ago

Germany unveils zero-emissions train that only emits steam

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Bitcoin mining mega farm burns down, destroying $10m

Video appears to show fire ravaging Innosilicon's giant data centre in China | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 5 years ago

Whatsapp Testing ‘Disappearing’ Messages in New Update

Other messaging apps including Facebook Messenger offer self-destructing messages to protect privacy | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 5 years ago

Scientists behind ‘sci-fi makes you stupid’ study refute original research

It turns out only bad science fiction decreases your intelligence, according to a new paper | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 5 years ago

Hong Kong protests: Man shot in chest by police firing live rounds

Clashes across city as protesters turn out in defiance of ban, seeking to embarrass Beijing on China's 70th anniversary | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 5 years ago

Snowden: Private contractors have few legal prohibitions

Russia-based whistleblower promoting new memoir | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 5 years ago

Concerns raised over study claiming red meat cancer link ‘has no evidence’

‘These authors I think are wrong about absolutely everything,’ doctor says | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 5 years ago

Can we warn humans about nuclear waste in a million years’ time?

Burying radioactive waste is widely seen as the safest way to dispose of it. But, Helen Gordon writes, the real question is how we make future generations understand the decisions we made today | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 5 years ago

Noor Inayat Khan: The princess who became a spy (2006)

She was a Sufi pacifist who fought for Britain and died at the hands of the Gestapo. As a new biography separates truth from myth, Boyd Tonkin celebrates the remarkable Noor Anayat Khan | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 5 years ago

How the heart became the centre of the Apple Watch

On the eve of World Heart Day, Apple’s Chief Operating Officer Jeff Williams talked exclusively to The Independent about the versatility of the Watch, the company’s health strategy and why it matters to him | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 5 years ago

Life on Mars could be found within two years but world is ‘not prepared’

Leading astronomer says discovery will open up ‘whole new line of thinking’ | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 5 years ago

Thousands of ships use with cheat devices to divert poisonous pollution into sea

Experts say this could have a devastating effect on wildlife | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 5 years ago

Astronomers find world that could change understanding of how planets form

'It was completely unexpected' | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 5 years ago

China killing religious, ethnic minorities, harvesting their organs, UN is told

Lawyers for independent China Tribunal say UN member states have ‘legal obligation’ to act | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 5 years ago

Magnitude 5.8 earthquake hits Istanbul

Turkey is crossed by fault lines and prone to earthquakes | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 5 years ago

Apple Computers Mysteriously Break Down Across Hollywood Amid Software Problem

Mac Pro appears to be incompatible with new version of Avid editing software | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 5 years ago

Veganism is 'single biggest way' to reduce our environmental impact, study finds

Avoiding meat and dairy could reduce your carbon footprint from food by nearly three-quarters | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 5 years ago

Labour commits to 32-hour working week within a decade

A Working Time Commission is to draw up plans for longer statutory holidays | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 5 years ago

Google 'Achieves Quantum Supremacy', Report Claims

Quantum computer completed task in 200 seconds, which would take state-of-the-art supercomputer 10,000 years to perform | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 5 years ago

Facebook reveals which currencies will back Libra cryptocurrency

Notably absent from the basket of support currencies is the Chinese yuan | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 5 years ago

Asteroid that narrowly missed Earth ‘slipped through the net’ emails

‘I wonder how many times this has happened without the asteroid being discovered at all?’ | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 5 years ago

Our main enemy now is physics. And we can not make “deals” with physics

In a highly anticipated speech in Congress after travelling half the way across the Atlantic by boat, Greta Thunberg urges US senators to learn from the sacrifices of Martin Luther King and other civil rights activists in the fight against climate change. Here is the transcript | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 5 years ago

The Lost Nation of Ruthenia: A Journey Through No Man's Land

Searching for this historic country takes you through an intriguing slice of Europe. Just make sure you have your passport ready, says Simon Calder | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 5 years ago

UFO videos of UFO’s spotted by military pilots are real, US Navy says

‘It accelerated like nothing I’d ever seen,’ airman says of unexplained encounter | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 5 years ago

Trump impeachment hearing opened by Congress for first time

House Judiciary chairman describes efforts to curtail testimonies 'an absolute cover-up by the White House' | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 5 years ago

KitKat Japan is replacing plastic wrappers with origami paper versions

Get practising your paper cranes | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 5 years ago

Man takes emotional support clown to work as he fears being fired

Employee's concerns confirmed when he is dismissed in meeting, while clown noisily makes him balloon animals of unicorn and poodle | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 5 years ago

Boris Johnson 'faces citizen's arrest' if he goes to Scotland, PM warned

'He'd best keep in his bunker somewhere in either Eton or Westminster' | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 5 years ago

Tiny human efforts against the climate crisis have never seemed so meagre

We are like soccer fans in front of a TV screen at home, shouting and jumping from our seats, in a superstitious belief that this will somehow influence the outcome | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 5 years ago

Wikipedia Is Down

Outage affecting users across the world | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 5 years ago

Study: Age of Humans Reversed by Years

Small study is ‘not rock solid’ but could have huge consequences for ageing, experts say | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 5 years ago

Teen left blind and deaf by decade-long diet of sausages, crisps, processed food

Youngster, now 19, severely damaged optic nerve through lack of nutrition | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 5 years ago