The Independent

Rabbi Elie Abadie, who left Lebanon over 50 years ago, remains deeply connected to his Lebanese roots

Amid rising reports of persecution against religious minorities in India, Namita Singh speaks to Christians in Chhattisgarh who say they were made to exhume loved ones and bury them outside their village

After splitting up with her partner in her thirties, the author Louise O’Neill embarked on more than 100 first dates in Paris, London, New York and Rome – and threw out many of the assumptions she’d held about romance. She tells Katie Rosseinsky how it helped usher in a new era of her life and formed the basis of her first memoir

From her early days on ‘Emmerdale’ to her Oscar nomination for ‘Phantom Thread’, Lesley Manville has truly done it all on stage and screen, and earned national treasure status along the way. She tells Jacob Stolworthy the stories behind a dream career

Japan is launching a spacecraft on a groundbreaking mission to bring back samples from Phobos, one of Mars' moons

Authorities in Kansas say a woman drove a truck through a soccer field during a youth game, killing two people and hospitalizing 11 others

A special-needs teacher and student wounded in a deadly shooting at an Oregon elementary school remained hospitalized Saturday, but friends said their survival was a spot of hope in a community in mourning

Fire crews in Southern California are working to contain a wind-driven blaze that has charred hills and burned at least six large coastal homes

A child and an adult were killed at the scene, and police said multiple other injured victims have been transported to area hospitals