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Exclusive: The Pope has shown backing for Hungary’s so-called ‘peace deal’ between Kyiv and Moscow – while Trump’s election puts US aid at risk

Campaigners have criticised the offer, saying it shows ‘how little the aviation industry cares about the climate’

Exclusive: IPP prisoner Liam Bennett, now 36, has spent more than half of his life in prison as he pleas for a chance at freedom

Lack of systemic support for body donation, logistical hurdles, and cultural and religious sensitivities force medical students to rely on anatomical models or digital simulations for training. Namita Singh reports

Peter Mandelson is a favourite to replace Dame Karen Pierce as the UK’s ambassador to the US

Exclusive: The chair of a joint EU-UK delegation has outlined the bloc’s aims for closer ties in the wake of the US election

Peggy Grande told The Independent that Donald Trump is likely to give a ‘preferential trade deal to the UK’

Completion of sanctuary for domestic abuse survivors built with our readers’ donations will be ‘moment of pride for us all’, says developer

Long-time favorite four-letter-word ‘f***’ has crept more steadily in recent decades into media, society, slang and even politics. As many Americans (and global citizens) exclaimed it around the US presidential race and results, a new edition of lexicographer Jesse Sheidlower’s The F-Word has been published. He shares some ‘f****ing’ factoids…

‘I think that I’m still trying to grapple with the fact that our country dislikes women so much,’ one accuser told Kelly Rissman after the resounding election results

Melissa Montoya disappeared after a night out in Dulce, New Mexico on March 9, 2001. For 23 years, there was no movement in the case but Darlene Gomez, an advocate for MMIW cases, never gave up the search for her friend. She tells Andrea Cavallier how a new tip could…