The RSPCA has launched a new campaign urging people to care about the lives of every animal. The “For Every Kind” movement encourages the public to carry out one million acts of kindness for animals to mark the charity’s 200th anniversary. In a ...

Parents chanted “shame on you” as lawmakers in the Tennessee Senate passed a bill that will let some educators bring guns to school. The state Senate passed SB 1325 by a vote of 26-5 on Tuesday 9 April, allowing concealed handguns in the cl ...

Watch live as Sir Michael Hodgkinson - former chair of Post Office Ltd and former senior non-executive director of Royal Mail Holdings plc - gives evidence to the Post Office Horizon IT inquiry on Thursday 11 April.

Jakarta hopes the industry is the ticket to becoming a developed nation. But there are fears the toll on the environment – and people’s lives – will be too high

Watch live as the Chad Daybell triple-murder trial gets underway in Idaho on Wednesday (10 April).

Switch could also reduce prevalence of disability linked to diet-related disease and help tackle the climate crisis, researchers found

More than half of the foreign-born population in the United States lives in just four states

The shadow chancellor said £5bn raised by clamping down on tax avoidance will fund slew of promises on NHS and primary school breakfast clubs

Labour’s West Midlands candidate says it’s time for a fresh start as he vows to create 150,000 new jobs

Watch live as huge crowds gather in Oklahoma to watch 2024 total solar eclipse on Monday (8 April).

Watch live as the 2024 total solar eclipse darkens the sky over parts of Central and North America on Monday (8 April).

Watch live total solar eclipse 2024 updates from Nasa on Monday (8 April).

Latino workers have told The Independent they are too afraid to take on jobs rebuilding the Baltimore bridge after six migrants died in its collapse last month. Miguel Velasquez, who has worked in construction for over 10 years, says that he would n ...

Watch live as a total solar eclipse darkens parts of northern Mexico on Monday (8 April).

Watch live as a landmark Changing of the Guards takes place today (8 April) as British troops join French on Entente Cordiale anniversary.

Four people have lost their lives

Figure was a significant drop on 2022, when 506 lives were saved by lifeboat crews and lifeguards

Environmental and animal welfare groups call on lender to phase out support for ‘industrial’ livestock operations

Watch live as Rwanda marks the 30th anniversary of the genocide that claimed almost a million lives during the country’s civil war in the early 1990s.

Act now on air quality in the Belgian capital, which is among the filthiest in Europe, say doctors and environmentalists