Harland & Wolff (H&W), the stricken Titanic shipbuilder, is on the brink of a £70m government-backed rescue deal that will include guarantees of job security for the company's workforce.

Titanic was the biggest ship on the sea when she was launched in May 1911. She was as tall as Nelson's Column in London. Workers used 22 tonnes of soap to make sure Titanic could slip into the ...

John Alfred Tinniswood, who held the title of the world's oldest man for nearly nine months, has died at the age of 112. Tinniswood passed away Monday in a care home near Liverpool, the city where ...

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 ...

The Los Angeles City Council is considering changing the way it sets annual allowable increases for rent-controlled properties for the first time in nearly 40 years. That’s good. The law needs ...

The award-winning filmmaker has slept in the same bedroom for over four decades. He credits his home with allowing him to make the films everyone said he couldn’t. Ken Burns has lived in this ...

That’s why I think people paid so much attention this week when Walmart CFO John David Rainey said he expects Walmart will “probably” have to raise at least some prices, assuming President ...

Receivers have been appointed over Waterford Whisky, the distillery business founded by industry veteran Mark Reynier, after it failed to raise fresh funds. The receivership is the culmination of ...

A massive $895 billion defense spending bill cleared the House of Representatives on Wednesday with provisions that would ban transgender medical treatments for minors and raise military pay.

People who had severe infections are especially vulnerable. By Nina Agrawal Since nearly the start of the pandemic, scientists have known that a Covid-19 infection increases the risk of heart ...

One of his promises after he took office was to raise cut scores, the number of questions students needed to get right to pass state tests, to the “highest in the nation” by spring 2023.