‘Negotiating sausages while the world burns’: Brussels can’t move on from Brexit

It has been exactly five years since Britain voted to exit the European Union, 17 months since the UK formally left and 174 days since the end of the transition period. But in Brussels, there’s one topic that even now just will not go away: Brexit. | Continue reading


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Irish police to be given powers to make people hand over passwords

Strengthening of officers’ abilities comes as more crime migrates online during pandemic | Continue reading


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Potatoes for McDonald’s fries are grown on Bill Gates’ farmland in fields so big

He’s the largest private farmland owner in the US | Continue reading


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French set to replace English as EU’s ‘working language’

Notes, minutes, letters and meetings will be ‘French-first’ when France takes over European Council’s presidency | Continue reading


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Man whose WMD lies led to 100k deaths confesses all

Defector tells how US officials 'sexed up' his fictions to make the case for 2003 invasion | Continue reading


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Airlines Fly Bizarre Flight Paths to Avoid French Airspace Amid National Strike

Because the airspace covered by the French Area Control Centre at Brest extends so far west, airlines have had to file extreme flight plans   | Continue reading


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Military drones may have attacked humans for first time without being instructed

Drones may have autonomously ‘hunted down and remotely engaged’ fleeing soldiers | Continue reading


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Targeting the brain with magnets can alter religious, political attitudes (2015)

By shutting down the threat-processing centre of the brain, scientists weakened people's faith in God and made them less prejudiced | Continue reading


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Start refreezing the Arctic Ocean as soon as possible to save our megacities

The climate column: Scientists have been warning about the tipping point of the Arctic icecap melt for decades | Continue reading


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Red, white and Who: Was the American reboot of Doctor Who that bad?

Dubbed ‘a numbing disappointment’ upon release, the 1996 ‘Doctor Who’ movie starred Paul McGann, was set in San Francisco, and attempted to breathe life into the then-dormant sci-fi series. As the film turns 25, Clémence Michallon explores what went wrong, and speaks to the fans … | Continue reading


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Facebook refuses to remove attack advert linking Ilhan Omar to Hamas

The congresswoman’s aides warned the company that similar ads had resulted in death threats against her | Continue reading


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Mysterious Phantom Building Passes Through Manchester in Google Maps Glitch

It is unclear what’s causing the strange bug on the popular mapping software | Continue reading


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Cryptocurrency company accidentally sends users millions in Bitcoin

One user received 700 bitcoin - worth £21,000,000 - rather than $700 | Continue reading


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Tesla invention still not completely understood useful in ways we hadnt realised

A 100-year-old Tesla invention is actually useful in ways scientists had not realised, according to new research. | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 3 years ago

‘Pan-coronavirus’ vaccine shows early promise in monkeys and mice

Scientists are hopeful that, one day, they will be able to develop a vaccine that provides protection against different Covid variants along with a number of animal-based coronaviruses, finds Samuel Lovett | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 3 years ago

Train company encourages staff to drop ‘ladies and gentlemen’

LNER says it is ‘committed to diversity and inclusion in all that we do for our customers, colleagues and communities’ | Continue reading


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World’s First Wooden Satellite Set to Launch in 2021, Friendly to Environment

WISA Woodsat will come equipped with an extendible selfie stick to take pictures of itself | Continue reading


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Nuclear reactions found smoldering at Chernobyl ‘like embers in a barbecue’

Ukraine scientists concerned by 40 per cent spike in neutron emissions since 2016 in inaccessible chamber | Continue reading


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‘Holy Grail’ Battery Breakthrough Sees Scientists Solve 40-Year Problem

Lithium-metal batteries hold far more energy and charge in a fraction of the time compared to those used in smartphones and electric cars | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 3 years ago

Trump tries to get around Twitter ban and gets suspended again

Trump’s team tried to get his messaging back on the microblogging website but were unsucessful | Continue reading


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NASA asteroid simulation ends in unavoidable disaster for Earth

SpaceX boss Elon Musk says failed exercise proves ‘we need larger and more advanced rockets’ | Continue reading


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Anthony Bourdain’s ‘lieutenant’ on finishing his travel guide without him

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BillGates says vaccine formulas shouldn’t be shared with developing world

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iPad Pro: How Apple Made Its New Tablet

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Aztec Renaissance

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Bake news: ‘Dangerous’ beast in tree turns out to be croissant

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Swedish vaccine website accidentally uses ‘Hide the Pain Harold’ meme picture

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New Zealand raises minimum wage to $20 an hour

Taxes on the riches New Zealanders are being raised | Continue reading


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Facebook accidentally announces “Re-Entry” social network targeted at prisoners

Facebook is testing an app aimed at prisoners who are coming back into society, a test has revealed. | Continue reading


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What happens when you die, according to people who died

What happens when you die? | Continue reading


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Gmail, Chrome, and Amazon Are Crashing on Android Phones Amid Strange Bug

An update for Android System WebView has now been issued via the Google Play Store | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 3 years ago

Instagram is most invasive app, new study shows

Facebook-owned app collects 79 per cent of personal data | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 3 years ago

Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook messenger down for users around the world

Instagram, WhatsApp and FacebookMessenger have gone down for users across the world. | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 3 years ago

UK man becomes second person ever cured of HIV

No active viral load detected in Adam Castillejo’s body since he was declared free of HIV last March | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 4 years ago

Scientists detect radio blast coming from further away in space than ever before

Scientists have discovered the most distant radio blast ever known. | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 4 years ago

India ‘threatens to jail Twitter employees’ amid criticism over farmers protests

Twitter has pushed back against an Indian government directive, saying it was given 'insufficient justification' to block hundreds of accounts | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 4 years ago

Starship finally lands without exploding in major milestone towards Mars

Mars-bound craft landed at an angle and appeared to leak fuel | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 4 years ago

Europeans get ‘right to repair’ for some electrical goods

New devices will also have to come with repair manuals and be made in such a way that they can be dismantled using conventional tools | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 4 years ago

High energy solar particles could threaten Earth

Scientists have found the exact source of dangerous rays that are fired from the Sun and threaten activities on the Earth. | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 4 years ago

UK moths decline by a third in 50 years, ‘worrying’ new report reveals

‘If moths are dwindling, we can be pretty sure that other wildlife is also in decline,’ charity says | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 4 years ago

Bitcoin mining to be banned in coal-heavy region of China

Inner Mongolia is home to large coal mines and fossil fuel-powered plants that have raised concerns about cryptocurrency’s environmental impact | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 4 years ago

At least nine dead in Myanmar as police open fire

Myanmar’s neighbours in southeast Asia have failed to find any resolution to the crisis so far | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 4 years ago

The UK’s last lighthouse keepers can teach us about isolation

If there is anyone that knows what it’s like to spend long periods of time alone, it’s lighthouse keepers. Serena Coady gets advice from former custodians about how to weather the loneliness of the pandemic | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 4 years ago

Bill Gates reveals the reason he uses an Android phone instead of an iPhone

The interview was conduced on Clubhouse, which founder Paul Davidson says is receiving an Android app | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 4 years ago

AI mistakes ‘black and white’ chess chat for racism

Issues with artificial intelligence-based content moderation highlighted after world’s most popular YouTube chess channel labelled ‘harmful and dangerous’ | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 4 years ago

Ex-CIA chief releases new theory on JFK assassination

New book reportedly claims Lee Harvey Oswald was instructed by Soviets to kill president | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 4 years ago

Investors ‘shun’ Sizewell C nuclear power station project

Legal & General follow Aviva Investments in giving thumbs down to nuclear power project, reports claim | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 4 years ago

The encryption debate is about all of our personal messages

If we concentrate on the extremes, we overlook the benign way the technology is used by the majority | Continue reading


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