Boris Johnson told world leaders the the UN it was time for humanity to “grow up” (REUTERS)Boris Johnson has told leaders at the UN the world is not “indestructible” and that the upcoming climate summit…

(Getty Images)Welcome to The Independent’s live coverage of Manchester United vs West Ham United in the Carabao Cup.It seems like just last weekend that these two sides faced one another, doesn’t it? Well, that’s because…

Tributes from the entertainment industry have poured in for Willie Garson, the actor known for his roles in White Collar and Sex and The City, who has died aged 57.A cause of death has not…

The Great British Bake Off should have grown stale by now. Over 12 series, the programme has suffered a change of network (switching from the BBC to Channel 4 in 2016), lost one of its…

Investigators in hazmat suits respond to the 2018 Salisbury novichok attack (PA)Home Secretary Priti Patel vowed that the government will be “relentless” in its pursuit of justice over Russian spies having unleashed a novichok attack…

Tonight, as the penultimate episode of Vigil drew to a close, fans finally found out that the traitor on the show’s submarine is, in fact, Lorne MacFadyen’s Matthew Doward.The Russian spy’s identity was revealed in…

Time to staaaaart dancing again. Yes, after a joyous but slimmed-down lockdown edition last year, BBC ballroom blockbuster Strictly Come Dancing was back for a near-normal series: a full cast, fancy-dressed themed weeks, studio audience,…

Soviet-era chess icon Nona Gaprindashvili has sued Netflix for $5m in a defamation lawsuit over a line in The Queen’s Gambit.Poised to win big at the 2021 Emmy Awards this weekend, the Anya Taylor-Joy starrer…