Bear, a German Shepherd mix puppy is now being looked after at a Fresno rescue awaiting adoption

Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has insisted police stop and search is working to help reduce knife crime across London. Sir Mark made his comments in an interview with LBC today (1 May), the day after a 14-year-old boy was killed and four others in ...

With his interchangeable T-shirts and short neat hair, Facebook’s founder famously ‘never tried to be cool’. Is his makeover just a distraction from what’s going on at Meta, asks Arwa Mahdawi

Scientists stunned by scale of destruction after summer of storm surges, cyclones and floods

Volunteers and medics joined an anti-euthanasia protest in Westminster on Monday 29 April, while MPs considered changing the law around assisted suicide. Ministers are debating assisted dying after a petition on discussing the controversial issue gai ...

We face a recruitment and retention emergency when even desirable schools can’t fill vacancies. This is what a crisis looks like, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

Ministers should hold their nerve as it is not yet clear what the regulator, Ofwat, will propose

Editorial: Rishi Sunak’s rightward journey on asylum is turning the UK into a darker place

John Swinney emerges as favourite to become leader of party hit by series of damaging crises

Livio Mazarello fleeced the taxpayer of over £38m, but it looks like he will only pay back a maximum of just over £1.2m

David Mundy's crimes spanned 20 years and he admitted he first looked at sexual images of children when he still worked for the BBC

"Next stop: the supersonic seventies!"

Amid the bleakest backdrop the SNP in years, The Independent looks at what went wrong for the SNP, and where it has left the party

It's not been the best end to April, and the beginning of May isn't looking much better, but there's hope on the horizon

The proud mum-of-one has fronted the popular BBC show for nearly a decade

Bernie Sanders reiterates his stance on college protests: ‘We are looking at the possibility of mass starvation and famine in Gaza. When you make those charges, that is not antisemitic. That is a reality’

A woman who uses asparagus to predict the future has shared when she thinks the next general election will be held - and it doesn’t look good for Sir Keir Starmer. Jemima Packington, the world’s only “asparamancer” and who foresaw Queen Eliza ...

Whoever emerges as Humza Yousaf’s successor faces a frightful inheritance - The Independent looks at who the runners and riders are to replace him

Teenage boys believed to be among most vulnerable to gangs using real and fake images to blackmail victims

As the Scottish National party leader announces his resignation, we look at likely successors