More than five decades after a man calling himself Dan Cooper vanished into the night, a new theory has revived one of America’s most enduring mysteries. An inventor and pilot argues the hijacker was driven not by greed but grief,...
As the festive season approaches, the excitement of gift-giving is in the air, but so is the lurking threat of cunning scams. Discover how to stay safe.
Scientists now think the universe may be filled with tiny “primordial” black holes, relics from the first moments after the Big Bang, drifting through Earth by the thousand each year and passing through our homes and bodies without...
Colombia has recovered the first artefacts from the San José galleon, a 1708 shipwreck long dubbed the “holy grail of shipwrecks.” The cannon, porcelain and macuquinas were raised under a scientific project that aims to study, not...
A viral Reddit post claimed a smart fridge advert triggered a psychotic episode, prompting hospitalisation and legal questions. The story spread quickly across social media and tabloids, amplifying concerns about advertising inside the...
Russia’s Cold War–era “Doomsday Radio” has broken from its usual pattern, transmitting an unusual volume of coded messages in December. The activity echoes previous moments of heightened tension and has drawn scrutiny as Russia–NATO...
Google’s Year in Search named 20-year-old musician D4vd as 2025’s most-searched person, not for his music, but after the body of missing California teenager Celeste Rivas was discovered in the trunk of a Tesla registered to him. Though...
The former chief executive of Marie Curie has made a sizeable donation to The Independent ’s SafeCall campaign as he urges others to support its aim to provide a vital free service for missing children
Leon Towers was 14 when he fled into the Cumbrian night and into the hands of traffickers. He tells Harriette Boucher how a lifetime of silence began – and why he’s determined no child is left unseen again
The Greater Manchester mayor was responding to reports that he plans to run for a parliamentary seat before next May’s local elections to allow him to take over from Keir Starmer