Labour spending just £15,000 on advertising blitz to deter migrants, GB News reveals

The Home Office has spent just £15,000 on a deterrent campaign to warn migrants about the “one-in, one-out” returns deal with France, GB News can reveal. According to a Freedom of Information request by The People's Channel, Labour has spent a...

Ranked: The World’s Largest Economies in 2026

Ranked: The World’s Largest Economies in 2026 See visuals like this from many other data creators on our Voronoi app. Download it for free on iOS or Android and discover incredible data-driven charts from a variety of trusted sources. Key...

A semi-submarine costing $1.7m to build can carry $50m worth of cocaine to the US

United States authorities say they believe just a tiny fraction of such vessels have been intercepted worldwide. We were in the sprawling naval base along the waterfront of Guayaquil, Ecuador’s most populous city, looking at drug-trafficking ships...

Pride of Britain Awards 2025 winners in full

The ceremony, which was held earlier in the week, is being broadcast on ITV1 (Image: Steve Bainbridge) The Pride of Britain Awards is back for another year to celebrate the remarkable accomplishments of everyday individuals from across the UK....

Eric Adams Is Endorsing ‘Snake and Liar’ Cuomo for Mayor

Photo: Al Bello/Getty Images “Andrew Cuomo is a snake and a liar,” Mayor Eric Adams said last month, alleging that the former governor was trying to push him out of the mayoral race. He also described Cuomo and front-runner Zohran Mamdani as...

How ELIRA Apparel is Empowering Women Through Fashion, Weaving Everyday Freedom into Wearable Innovation

Freedom often comes in unexpected forms. For Kelly McCombs, it arrived on a hiking trail, mid-walk with her dogs, when the simple act of going to the bathroom revealed an inconvenient truth: women lacked functional apparel that allowed them the...

Cyprus’ Council of EU presidency to focus on bloc’s enlargement

Cyprus’ six-month term as the holder of the Council of the European Union’s rotating presidency will focus on plans to enlarge the EU, according to a draft programme for the term seen by the Cyprus Mail on Thursday. “Enlargement is a geopolitical...

‘I don’t get tired, I don’t have private interests’

“I would like to request an interview with the artificial intelligence system that has taken over the position of minister.” With this request, I addressed the Albanian government’s communications officers, who were not only not surprised by my...

New 'AI you can trust' for when safety matters

A new generation of artificial intelligence that provides a "confidence rating" of its answers could make algorithms more trustworthy and speed their rollout in safety-critical situations. Scientists developing the technology called...

Why one country believes Tony Blair can bring peace to Gaza

Your support helps us to tell the story 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 producing our...

'Uncertainty really matters': Sky News investigates new AI test at sea

A new generation of artificial intelligence that provides a "confidence rating" of its answers could make algorithms more trustworthy and speed their rollout in safety-critical situations. Scientists developing the technology called...

Heart’s Home

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO, Julian Hoffman and his wife, Julia, decided to pack up their busy London lives and move to a place they’d never seen: a remote village near the shores of a wild lake in the mountains of northern Greece. The idea came to them...

Letters to the Editor | Oct. 22, 2025

Trump’s Barynya President Donald Trump’s shifting stance on Ukraine’s war with Russia has emerged once again. Less than a month ago, Trump, on his Truth Social platform, asserted that Ukraine’s territorial integrity could be restored to its prewar...

Ep 269 | Great Reset Elites Are Planning a Post-Human Future | Whitney Webb

Global elites are still pushing forward with their Great Reset agenda to enslave the world and create a post-human future despite President Trump’s crushing of ESG and DEI, researcher and author Whitney Webb tells Glenn. In her long-awaited return...

International symposium on modern religious models commences in Baku

Baku, October 22, AZERTAC On October 22, an international symposium on “Modern Models of Religious Education in the Context of Moral Values and Global Challenges” kicked off in Baku. The event began with the performance of the National Anthem of...

Serbia Buries General Convicted of Kosovo War Crimes With Honours

The Serbian Army Guard at Nebojsa Pavkovic’s funeral in Belgrade, October 22 2025. Photo: mod.gov.rs. Nebojsa Pavkovic, a former Yugoslav Army General sentenced to 22 years in prison for war crimes, was buried in the Alley of Meritorious Citizens...

Genetics or geography? Australia is a global leader in polycystic ovary syndrome rates

In Australia’s National Women’s Health Strategy 2020-2030, PCOS is mentioned three times, while endometriosis is mentioned 18 times. Labor pledged $573 million to women’s health ahead of the 2025 federal election, but it largely focused on...

A Gaza gambit: the art of the doomed deal

| CounterPunch/Mohammed Ibrahi I AM rarely surprised by anything Trump says anymore. There is no lie too transparent to stop him — remember ‘sunny’when it was overcast? Or his absurdly erroneous claims that he ‘ended seven wars,’ including...

26 new Biosphere Reserves: UNESCO’s continues unprecedented expansion of its global network

This week, UNESCO gathered more than 2,000 international experts, public decision-makers, civil society, Indigenous representatives and youth for the 5th World Congress of Biosphere Reserves in Hangzhou, China, to take stock of the achievements of...

A Levels, Women's Premiership title and first NI goal – how Glentoran ace wants to end 2025 in style

Already the Glentoran Women striker has packed more into the last 10 months than some players achieve in their entire career. The list of achievements both on and off the pitch, which has grown further with even more significant successes in the...