‘This is inhuman and a civilised society will never accept such an idea,’ says local education board | Continue reading
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White House officials scrambling to retrieve weapons of mass destruction, reports say | Continue reading
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Ms Duflo becomes only second woman to win economics prize since it was first awarded in 1969 | Continue reading
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Peace-keeping missions at risk and staff warned to expect default on salaries as member states hold off paying annual fee | Continue reading
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Wang Englin paid in sacks of corn to copy out legal information by hand in a bookshop | Continue reading
Video appears to show fire ravaging Innosilicon's giant data centre in China | Continue reading
Other messaging apps including Facebook Messenger offer self-destructing messages to protect privacy | Continue reading
It turns out only bad science fiction decreases your intelligence, according to a new paper | Continue reading
Clashes across city as protesters turn out in defiance of ban, seeking to embarrass Beijing on China's 70th anniversary | Continue reading
Russia-based whistleblower promoting new memoir | Continue reading
‘These authors I think are wrong about absolutely everything,’ doctor says | Continue reading
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
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
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
Leading astronomer says discovery will open up ‘whole new line of thinking’ | Continue reading
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Lawyers for independent China Tribunal say UN member states have ‘legal obligation’ to act | Continue reading
Turkey is crossed by fault lines and prone to earthquakes | Continue reading
Mac Pro appears to be incompatible with new version of Avid editing software | Continue reading
Avoiding meat and dairy could reduce your carbon footprint from food by nearly three-quarters | Continue reading
A Working Time Commission is to draw up plans for longer statutory holidays | Continue reading
Quantum computer completed task in 200 seconds, which would take state-of-the-art supercomputer 10,000 years to perform | Continue reading
Notably absent from the basket of support currencies is the Chinese yuan | Continue reading
‘I wonder how many times this has happened without the asteroid being discovered at all?’ | Continue reading
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
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
‘It accelerated like nothing I’d ever seen,’ airman says of unexplained encounter | Continue reading
House Judiciary chairman describes efforts to curtail testimonies 'an absolute cover-up by the White House' | Continue reading
Get practising your paper cranes | Continue reading
Employee's concerns confirmed when he is dismissed in meeting, while clown noisily makes him balloon animals of unicorn and poodle | Continue reading
'He'd best keep in his bunker somewhere in either Eton or Westminster' | Continue reading
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
Outage affecting users across the world | Continue reading
Small study is ‘not rock solid’ but could have huge consequences for ageing, experts say | Continue reading
Youngster, now 19, severely damaged optic nerve through lack of nutrition | Continue reading