Ukrainian troops are battling to build stronger defences as Russian advances plough through

Ukraine, trade and investment are expected to dominate Chinese leader Xi Jinping's first trip to europe in five years, which starts in France on Monday

Global Citizen NOW says it wants 2024 conference attendees to invest long-term in the African continent's fast-growing youth population and increase outreach to young changemakers

Elite dinner co-hosted by entrepreneur David Sacks at his home in the Hollywood Hills

The male student never made it into the school and was ‘neutralized’ outside, authorities say

Police used water cannons, tear gas and pepper spray against protesters in Georgia’s capital of Tbilisi on Wednesday night (1 May). Tens of thousands took to the streets as the country’s parliament moved closer to adopting a controversial law tha ...

£5.5bn loss in 2023 comes after gas sales more than halved following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

The Museum of London and neighbouring Bastion House would be demolished and replaced with three office buildings if the scheme is approved

Russia has amassed tens of thousands of soldiers along sectors of the eastern frontline in Ukraine, according to seniro Ukrainian military officials

WARNING DISTRESSING CONTENT Marius Gustavson’s ‘eunuch maker’ website amassed 22,000 registered users before it was closed down

european Union officials say passing the law – which critics say is inspired by the Kremlin’s crackdowns on dissent – would harm Georgia’s prospects of joining the eu

Novo Nordisk, which is now europe’s most valuable company, also reports strong sales of diabetes drug Ozempic

Lifesize Victorious Youth is at centre of a years-long dispute after Italy claimed it had been illegally bought by US trust

In a new four-article series, The Independent reveals the details of Bel Trew’s special investigation into the desperate plight of hundreds – potentially thousands – of people with disabilities caught up in Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. The mo ...

A new special investigation unveils how Russia is feared to have transferred hundreds if not thousands of people with disabilities

Comment: Reporting on the kidnapping and abuse of the most vulnerable in Ukrainian society makes one thing clear, writes Bel Trew: in war people with disabilities are the last to be remembered and the first to be left behind

The european Union has announced an aid package for Lebanon of 1 billion euros — about $1.06 billion — that will mostly go to strengthening border control to halt the flow of asylum seekers and migrants from the small, crisis-wracked country acro ...

New estimates from the United Nations show that if the Israel-Hamas war stopped today, it would still take until 2040 to rebuild all the homes that have been destroyed in nearly seven months of Israel’s bombardment and ground offensives in the terr ...

Large fire and billowing smoke engulfs buildings in the latest attack on the port city