Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez and Billy Joe Saunders go head-to-head in a much-anticipated super middleweight clash in Texas this week. Mexican superstar and unified super middleweight champion Canelo (55-1-2, 37 KOs) carries a six-fight win streak into the bout, having suffered his sole career defeat...
So it’s goodbye climate deniers, hello – and you’ll pardon me for being blunt here – climate bullshitters. The impacts of the climate emergency are now so obvious, only the truly deluded still deny them. Instead, we are at the...
Benjamin Netanyahu has failed to form a coalition government, extending a two-year political deadlock in Israel – and putting the country’s longest-serving leader back on the defensive as his rivals move to unseat him. Following an inconclusive snap election on 23...
A blue Skoda taxi and a white Peugeot van collided on the A494 between Rhydymain and Dolgellau in mid Wales at around 8am this morning (Thursday). Emergency services rushed to the scene but the driver of the Skoda died at the...
Eating disorder campaigners have hailed a decision by the American plus-size model Tess Holliday to announce she is receiving treatment for anorexia, saying that it is helping to stop the idea that “only very underweight people can have anorexia”. Holliday,...
Germany’s government is to revise its emission reduction targets after the country’s constitutional court declared the current climate protection measures insufficient, aiming to become greenhouse gas neutral by 2045 rather than 2050. The finance minister, Olaf Scholz, and the environment minister,...
Shares in pharmaceutical companies fell sharply after the US government threw its weight behind global plans for a patent waiver on Covid-19 vaccines to boost their production and distribution around the world. Shortly after the US declared its support for the intellectual property (IP) waiver, which...
Nepal is struggling to contain an explosion in Covid-19 cases, as fears grow that the situation in the Himalayan country may be as bad, if not worse, than in neighbouring India, with which it shares a long and porous border. Following...
A Malian woman has given birth to nine babies – all “doing well so far” – in what is thought to be a world record for the most children in a single birth to survive. Halima Cisse had been expected...
Manchester City chief Ferran Soriano apologised to the heads of England's football authorities for the distress caused by the Super League plans at Sunday's Carabao Cup final at Wembley. The Independent has been told by sources in the room that the Catalan...
