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IN FOCUS: ‘Africa will need hundreds of billions of dollars annually by 2030 if it is to meet energy access and development goals,’ one financial expert tells The Independent. Nick Ferris reports

Would moving to an Australian-style system be better or worse than the U.S. system? And would it work as well in America as in Australia? Here's a closer look.

Starmer’s right-hand man was considered the driving force behind Mandelson’s appointment as US ambassador

Brian Low died in February 2024 on a track near Aberfeldy, Perthshire.

Who’s raising our robots? Teaching social norms in the age of humanoid robots.

The EEOC is seeking court-enforced access to Nike's records as the Trump administration ramps up its crackdown on corporate diversity programmes.

When the Winter Games kick off with the opening ceremony on Friday it won’t just be the athletes who are going to be tested

Another Apple iMac alternative has arrived, and it's built around AMD's most powerful APU.

Nigeria's President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has deployed an army batallion to the western state of Kwara after gunmen killed at least 162 people in one of the country's deadliest attacks in recent months.

For decades, astronomers have been watching WOH G64, an enormous heavyweight star in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy visible with the naked eye from the Southern Hemisphere. This star is more than 1,500 times larger than the Sun and emitting over 100,000 times more energy. For a long time,…

Prisoner exchange agreed at most significant contact between Kyiv and Moscow in months, but ‘work remains’