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Bill Gates said Apple co-founder Steve Jobs told him to do drugs in order to make Microsoft's earlier launches more exciting.

Scientists called the data ‘astonishing and, frankly terrifying’ after January broke climate records

Young people are hungry for stories from sources they can trust, according to The Independent’s Editor-in-Chief Geordie Greig.

As Gazans return to their bombed-out homes, US president says he wants ‘long-term ownership’, to relocate inhabitants and transform territory into ‘Riviera of Middle East’

Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Morrisons and Asda sign up to damning letter warning over ‘the long-term stability of the nation's food resilience’

Interview: The 27-year-old discusses his difficult upbringing in Russia, working as a bouncer and at McDonald’s to afford a better a education, and his heartbreak at the Paris Olympics

Places where tragedies have occurred, such as Chernobyl, Hiroshima and the killing fields in Cambodia, draw thousands of tourists a year – Amelia Neath explores why people choose to visit these locations

A night out in Los Angeles ended in tragedy when the bodies of two women were dumped outside area hospitals. Christy Giles was dead. Her friend Hilda Cabrales-Arzola was barely alive. David Pearce, the Hollywood producer who partied with them that night, was later charged with their murders, accused of…

Exclusive: Microsoft co-founder tells ‘The Independent’ he tried cannabis because he thought ‘maybe I would look cool’