Ariana Grande ends London tour in tears before stepping back from public life
The Independentby Shahana Yasmin·2 Sept 2026
Ariana Grande completed her 41-date Eternal Sunshine tour with an emotional final performance at London’s O2 Arena on Tuesday, before stepping back from public life for an extended break.
UN says humanity has failed in key global warming target but all hope is not lost
The Independentby Stuti Mishra·2 Sept 2026
Humanity has lost its chance to keep global warming within the safe limit set a decade ago, the United Nations has said, though it insists temperatures can still be brought back down if countries...
University replaces in-person psychology classes with AI chatbot for two subjects
The Independentby Maroosha Muzaffar·2 Sept 2026
An Australian university has introduced an AI chatbot into the weekly teaching of two compulsory psychology subjects, in a move that academics fear could be “damaging”.
Emily Wilson to retranslate The Odyssey after declaring Nolan’s version ‘abysmal’
The Independentby Shahana Yasmin·2 Sept 2026
Emily Wilson is retranslating Homer’s The Odyssey from scratch, less than a decade after her acclaimed first version and weeks after she called Christopher Nolan’s film adaptation of the Greek epic...
Some missing tourists make contact as Nepal flood death toll tops 1,100
The Independentby Shristi Kafle·2 Sept 2026
Some tourists previously reported missing in Nepal have made contact with authorities, officials said Wednesday, as search efforts continued following catastrophic floods that killed at least 1,118...
German companies under pressure to adapt as China challenges them at their own game
The Independentby David McHugh·2 Sept 2026
The heart of the German economy is making and exporting the big-ticket, complex goods that make global business run: everything from cars and locomotives to factory machinery, aircraft and...
Highway between Nepal and China reopens after deadly floods as 119 people rescued
The Independentby Stuti Mishra·2 Sept 2026
The road leading to the Gyirong border crossing between China and Nepal fully reopened more than a week after the catastrophic floods, as Nepalese rescuers pulled 119 more people to safety with the...
Asian shares decline after stocks slip on Wall Street, while global bond sell-off intensifies
The Independentby Chan Ho-Him·2 Sept 2026
Asian shares tumbled Wednesday after stocks slipped on Wall Street and as a bond market sell-off deepened globally. U.S. futures also declined. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 dropped 3% to 64,278.95.
How Coco Gauff overcame nerves to make strong start to US Open title tilt
The Independentby Andy Sims·2 Sept 2026
Coco Gauff began her bid for a second US Open title with a nerveless win over Zeynep Sonmez. The American fourth seed, champion in 2023, was tested in the second set by Turkish outsider Sonmez but...
Rating every Premier League club’s transfer window after record deadline day
The Independentby Sports Staff·2 Sept 2026
Premier League clubs have smashed their summer transfer record with over £3.3bn spent. More than half of the Premier League’s clubs broke their transfer records in a summer window featuring four of...
Why we need to start treating Trump’s America like Russia
The Independentby Keir Giles·2 Sept 2026
There’s been a rash of speculation surrounding the visit by CIA director John Ratcliffe to Moscow last week.
Meg Mason: ‘The term Sad Girl Lit is infuriating and minimising’
The Independentby Annabel Nugent·2 Sept 2026
New Zealander Meg Mason is the bestselling author of the 2021 book Sorrow and Bliss. A big-hearted story about mental health, marriage, family and love, and Mason’s first novel to be published in...
Why I decided to paint people with eating disorders
The Independentby Courtney Bae·2 Sept 2026
I grew up in the Nineties; the time of “cocaine chic”, hip bones jutting out over jeans – and Kate Moss.
Iran war live: Tehran hits back after Trump strikes Iranian tankers and wedding party
The Independentby Shweta Sharma·2 Sept 2026
Iran has vowed to respond with “crushing and devastating blows” after US strikes killed five people attending a wedding party in Iran.
What happens next if the jury in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial can't reach a verdict?
The Independentby Via AP news wire·2 Sept 2026
A Massachusetts jury plans to deliberate a fifth day Wednesday on whether Lindsay Clancy was criminally responsible when she strangled her three children in 2023, amid conflicting testimony about...
Pattaya, once Thailand's 'Sin City,' beckons weary sailors from the USS Abraham Lincoln
The Independentby Grant Peck and Jintamas Saksornchai·2 Sept 2026
There’s no getting around the fact that Thailand’s seaside resort of Pattaya has a lingering reputation for sex tourism, even though that’s only part of the story for the city that's an expected...
Italians enter uneasy truce with invasive blue crabs, exporting crustaceans they won't eat
The Independentby Colleen Barry·2 Sept 2026
Italian fishermen for two years incinerated most of the invasive Atlantic blue crabs caught in the Po River Delta south of Venice.
The Venice Film Festival opens with a Rupert Murdoch film, George Clooney and plenty of geopolitics
The Independentby Lindsey Bahr·2 Sept 2026
George Clooney and Danny Boyle are helping kick off the Venice Film Festival in style Wednesday on the Lido.
America's story intertwined with its military history, but a military-civilian disconnect persists
The Independentby Deepti Hajela·2 Sept 2026
The soldiers. The sailors. The battles. The conflicts. There is no recounting of the U.S. story where its existence as a nation isn’t intertwined with its military history, from 1776 to now.
Lindsay Clancy trial jury set to deliberate for fifth day after telling judge they were deadlocked
The Independentby Michael Casey·2 Sept 2026
Jurors in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial were set to resume deliberations Wednesday, a day after telling the judge they couldn’t agree on whether she was criminally responsible for killing her...
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