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Investigation: They fought shoulder-to-shoulder with British troops in UK-run units in Afghanistan. Now these highly trained commandos are reduced to living in shacks, surviving on bread and scavenged food as the UK drags its heels despite promises to relocate them to safety. Holly Bancroft, May Bulman, Fahim Abed and Jessica…

Pool player set to challenge English Blackball Federation in landmark court case

Exclusive: Harriet Haynes taking legal action against English Blackball Pool Federation move to stop her playing in women’s competition

Ahead of the season finale in Abu Dhabi, The Independent grades all 23 drivers to take part in at least one race

Exclusive details: “Why did they decide to arrest me now? It’s a great question,” suspected Russian agent Nomma Zarubina told The Independent.

Toy company previously apologized to customers after accidentally printing link to porn site on packages

It would mark an end to 36 years of private ownership after Margaret Thatcher passed the British Steel Act in 1988

Surge in strikes have strained truce between Israel and Hezbollah. While insurgents in Syria make fresh gains against forces of Assad to fuel spike in tension across the Middle East

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Exclusive: Labour risks rubber stamping the last government’s ‘deeply flawed human rights policy’ despite heavy criticism of the approach

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