Authorities have suspended the search for Erica Fox, a 55-year-old Monterey County resident and co-founder of the local open-water swimming group Kelp Krawlers, after an exhaustive multi-agency effort ...

The Aravalli Virasat Jan Abhiyaan, a coalition of environmentalists, activists, and citizens fighting to protect the mountain range, on Monday (December 22, 2025) said that there were inconsistencies ...

This week, fill up a crossword on the basis of a numerical key, and hunt for a number with two properties The last time we had a numerical word puzzle of this kind, a number of readers wrote back to ...

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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 ...

The Government is planning to change the UK’s asylum laws, including lengthening from five years to 20 years the period a refugee has to wait before being able to claim permanent settlement. Here the ...

More than 90,000 people were waiting for an initial decision on an asylum application in the UK at the end of June 2025 (Alamy/PA) The Government is planning to change the UK’s asylum laws, including ...