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Melanie Leather

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Melanie Leather is Deputy Editor of The Independent's website.

Tech

Winter Solstice 2013: Shortest day of the year marked with 'knitted'

Aldi is offering 1973 Napoleon Vintage Brandy worth £107 for the bargain price of £29.99
News

Elbows at the ready: Aldi offers 1973 Napoleon Vintage Brandy worth

Asia

Dalai Lama backs use of marijuana for medicinal purposes

James McAvoy as a drug-addled, booze-sodden, totally depraved policeman
News

James McAvoy denies claim that he would play Jimmy Savile on the big

Captain Francesco Schettino leaves the court room
Europe

Costa Concordia captain Francesco Schettino blames crew for crash

The complex in North Korea's third-largest city, Kaesong, was the last remaining symbol of inter-Korean co-operation until Pyongyang pulled its 53,000 workers
Asia

Kaesong industrial complex to reopen as tensions ease between North

Mahmoud Abbas attends a meeting with British Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Alistair Burt (left) and Minister of State for International Development Alan Duncan
UK Politics

Mahmoud Abbas to meet David Cameron in London

Brazilian forward Leonidas (L) controls the ball in front of a Swedish defender during the World Cup soccer match for third place between Brazil and Sweden 19 June 1938 in Bordeaux.
Tech

Google Doodle celebrates fancy footwork of Brazilian footballer

The Whakapapa ski resort in New Zealand
Australasia

British TV director Caroline Johnstone dies after falling off cliff in

Police officers cycle along the tow path alongside the River Cam in Cambridge where the body of the 12-year-old boy was pulled from the river
Home News

Body of missing schoolboy Andrew Collings recovered from River Cam

Saltwater crocodile numbers in Australia have shot up since the species was protected by federal law in 1971
Australasia

Australian police retrieve body after 26-year-old man killed in

Tourists leave the Bora-Bora Bar at Playa d'en Bossa
Europe

British clubber John Sharp found dead in sea off Ibiza

Tech

Google Doodle pays tribute to work of children's author Edith Nesbit

Tech

Google Doodle pays tribute to work of children's author Edith Nesbit

Labour leader Ed Miliband after he was pelted with eggs during a campaign visit in East Street market
UK Politics

More egg on his face: Ed Miliband pelted as he campaigns at Walworth

Israel's Iron Dome missile defence system intercepted a rocket launched at the Red Sea resort town of Eilat
Middle East

Israel intercepts rocket from Egyptian territory targeted at coastal

The Jewish settlement of Gilo, being built in East Jerusalem
Middle East

Israel approves plan to build 900 new homes in east Jerusalem as

Engineers examine the damage left by flash floods in Walsden, near Todmorden
Home News

Britain hit by heavy rain and flooding but heatwave set to return

Engineers examine the damage left by flash floods in Walsden, near Todmorden
Home News

Britain hit by heavy rain and flooding but heatwave set to return

A man feeds water to an injured woman following the earthquake
Asia

At least 89 dead as China's Gansu region is hit by powerful

Americas

Archaeologists discover dinosaur tail in Mexico's desert

Schoolchildren sing "Happy Birthday" to former South African President Nelson Mandela outside the Medi Clinic Heart Hospital in Pretoria
Africa

South Africa marks Nelson Mandela's 95th birthday, as he remains in

Spain had the highest number of reported sex attacks
Home News

Holiday sex attacks on Britons increase

Europe

Archaeologists unearth 'vampire' graves in Poland

Crime

Peckham teen raped boy, 13, for 'having a poor phone'

Asia

Concerns raised as China's economic growth slows to 7.5%

Network Rail is already forecast to have delivered efficiencies of 40 per cent in running the railways from 2004 and 2014 and ORR said it expected to see a further 20 per cent from 2014 to 2019
Home News

Network Rail told to cut costs by £2bn as damning report lays bare

Crime

Peckham teen raped boy, 13, for 'having a poor phone'

Asia

Concerns raised as China's economic growth slows to 7.5%

Network Rail is already forecast to have delivered efficiencies of 40 per cent in running the railways from 2004 and 2014 and ORR said it expected to see a further 20 per cent from 2014 to 2019
Home News

Network Rail told to cut costs by £2bn as damning report lays bare

Catherine Wells-Burr
Crime

Catherine Wells-Burr murderers jailed for life as judge criticises

Crime

Catherine Wells-Burr murderers jailed for life as judge criticises

Catherine Wells-Burr
Nick Boles was elected MP for Grantham in 2010
Crime

Man held after blast hits Conservative MP Nick Boles' Lincolnshire

Georgia Williams
Crime

Georgia Williams 'died from pressure to her neck', as Jamie Reynolds

Mark Bridger leaves Mold Crown Court
Crime

Google and internet service providers urged to do more to block child

Genetically modified salmon could escape into the wild with devastating consequences for the ecosystem, a new study has warned
News

Warning over GM fish: hybrid salmon can breed with wild species and

Genetically modified salmon could escape into the wild with devastating consequences for the ecosystem, a new study has warned
News

Warning over GM fish: hybrid salmon can breed with wild species and

A US Air Force F-15 aircraft flying over the US air force Kadena Air Base in Kadena city, Okinawa
Asia

US air force F-15 fighter jet crashes off Japan

Home News

Suffolk mayor Terry Buckle drives car into Tesco Express store in

Hussain al-Khawahir is accused of lying about why he was travelling with a pressure cooker
Americas

Saudi Arabian man brought pressure cooker into US to make food - not

Peter Sunde
Europe

Career change: Pirate Bay founder Peter Sunde to stand in European

The Coronavirus seen under an electron miscroscope
Health News

WHO warns that deadly new coronavirus could be passed from person to

Charlie Toogood
Home News

Padstow speedboat accident: Brave rescuer Charlie Toogood hailed for

David Cameron said the UK's work in Afghanistan was vital
UK Politics

UK has 'paid a very high price' in Afghanistan, says David Cameron

Tech

Google Doodle honours 'Queen of Jazz' Ella Fitzgerald on 96th birthday

Crime

Investigation launched after human ear is found in Aylesbury graveyard

Former MP Louise Mensch
News

Louise Mensch finally ends cosmetic surgery speculation by admitting

22 April 2013: Google's Doodle for Earth Day 2013
Tech

Earth Day 2013 celebrated with interactive Google Doodle

Tech

Earth Day 2013 celebrated with interactive Google Doodle

22 April 2013: Google's Doodle for Earth Day 2013
The fourth generation iPad
Tech

Apple 'to begin production of fifth-generation iPad this summer'

Chinese officials say they have fished out 900 dead pigs from a Shanghai river that is a water source for city residents.
Asia

Number of dead pigs found in Shanghai rivers rises to 16,000

Samsung is developing a smart watch in a bid to expand into new markets and match its rival Apple
Tech

Samsung reveals it is working on an Apple iWatch rival

Six men accused of the gang-rape of a Swiss tourist who was cycling with her husband in India have appeared in court
Asia

Six men arrested over gang-rape of Swiss tourist in India appear in

Six men accused of the gang-rape of a Swiss tourist who was cycling with her husband in India have appeared in court
Asia

Six men arrested over gang-rape of Swiss tourist in India appear in

A giant billboard in South Africa highlighting the dangers of young women having sex with older men
Africa

Over 25% of schoolgirls in South Africa are HIV positive because

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (centre) and military officers watching a live shell firing drill
Asia

North Korea 'prepares to strike': Kim Jong-un supervises live

Neanderthals became extinct because they had larger eyes than modern-day man, a new study of their skulls suggests
Science

Neanderthals' large eyes led to their downfall, says study

A photo issued by the Metropolitan Police of Nicola Edgington, who killed her mother and then killed stranger Sally Hodkin in the street
Crime

Nicola Edgington jailed for 37 years for street decapitation, as

Apple could potentially pay out $100 million to parents of children who made iTunes app purchases
Tech

Apple could pay out $100m to compensate parents whose children made

Crime

Police kept body parts of 90 children and babies

Google co-founder Sergey Brin and his wife Anne Wojcicki; Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan
Tech

Facebook and Google join forces to launch new £10m 'Nobel prize' for

Fizzy drinks should be taxed and fast food outlets near schools limited to help tackle spiralling levels of obesity, an influential medical group has demanded
Health News

'The greatest public health crisis affecting the UK': Doctors demand

News

Revealed: Sea slug that discards penis after sex and then regrows

At-home cosmetic procedure parties should be banned, leading doctors have said
Health News

Cosmetic surgeons won't be able to guarantee beauty under new

A picture of Charlie Morgan posted on his Twitter page
News

Swansea ballboy Charlie Morgan breaks his silence over Eden Hazard

News

Swansea ballboy Charlie Morgan breaks his silence over Eden Hazard

A picture of Charlie Morgan posted on his Twitter page
Reviews

The five best print exhibitions

News & Advice

Recession increases demand for solo holidays

UK Politics

Charles Clarke 'ashamed' to be Labour MP

News

Online dating proves success for gorillas

News

Online dating proves success for gorillas

Crime

Man charged over Girls Aloud 'porn murder blog'

Home News

Britain makes Atlantic sea bed claim

Fast lane: the Austin Allegro, unveiled by British Leyland in 1973. The company collapsed two years later
Features

Austin Allegro voted Britain's worst car

Americas

Jobs under threat as US cancels $18bn defence deal

Home News

Conservative MP questions Lawrence family's compensation

Home News

Conservative MP questions Lawrence family compensation

Home News

Colossal search for missing three-year-old is underway

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