Incoming New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is making history as the first Muslim, South Asian and African-born mayor.

The 34-year-old Democrat became mayor in a long-closed subway station beneath City Hall, the first Muslim, first South Asian ...

Zohran Mamdani is making history not only as New York's first mayor to take the oath of office on a Quran but also as the ...

New South Wales, the Australian state in which the Bondi Beach mass shooting took place last week, has proposed a ban on public displays of extremist flags and icons, as well as expanding the ...

“And God Created Woman” made her a world-famous sex symbol in the 1950s. She later gave up acting to devote her life to animal welfare. Brigitte Bardot in 1965, when she was at the height of her movie ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Brigitte Bardot, who has died at the age of 91, swept away cinema's staid 1950s' portrayal of women - coming to personify a new age of sexual liberation. On screen, she was a French cocktail of ...

The lifespan of a lobster trap is, like pretty much everything else in fishing, a matter mostly beyond one’s control. A sandy or muddy soft seafloor can buy a trap more than a decade of service. On ...