The Independent - March 04, 2025

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March 04, 2025

Zelensky 'won’t be around very long’ without a deal

Trump warns that 'US won’t put up with him much longer’

4 mins

Putin fan Trump shifts even further into Russian sphere

Vengeful US president dislikes Volodymyr Zelensky but there’s a bigger strategic game being played, says Sam Kiley

4 mins

The House unites against a common enenyy... Farage

There are special moments when the House of Commons truly unites against a common enemy despised on all sides of the chamber.

3 mins

Mandelson splits with No 10 on Trump’s Ukraine deal

Government stance confused as ambassador calls for reset’

4 mins

Has the Ukraine crisis lent Starmer a popularity boost?

Sir Keir Starmer is hardly the first leader in history to find themselves unpopular at home while highly regarded abroad

3 mins

Childhood obesity to rise by half by 2050, study suggests

The number of obese children and teenagers in the UK will rise by more than half by 2050, new research suggests, with children as young as five much more likely to be affected.

3 mins

The Singing Butler painter Jack Vettriano dies aged 73

Self-taught Scottish painter Jack Vettriano has been found dead at his apartment in Nice, in the south of France, his publicist said.

3 mins

Woman thanks surgeons forty years after operation

Holly Queiroz was separated from conjoined twin in 1985

2 mins

Drivers hit with fines from 'faulty’ car park machines

Motorist calls out parking company for 'tricking people’

3 mins

Pope suffers further setback and is put onto ventilation

Pope Francis suffered two new acute breathing crises yesterday and has been put back on ventilation, the Vatican said showing the 88-year-old’s struggle with pneumonia is far from over.

2 mins

Two dead after car is driven into crowd in German city weeks after Munich attack

At least two people have been killed and several injured after a car rammed into a crowd on a busy shopping street in the German city of Mannheim.

2 mins

Walz throws hat into ring for 2028 presidential race

Kamala Harris’s former running mate has suggested he may run for US president in 2028.

2 mins

‘He was paid to spy on and have sex with me for years’

Lisa’s partner was an undercover police officer hiding his double life from both her and his own wife and children. Ahead of a major documentary, Zoé Beaty hears her story

7 mins

Working out five to nine... what a way to make a living

Before clocking on at 9am, many young people are squeezing in four hours of everything from fitness to self-help. But the craze could just be more work and no play, says Ellie Muir

6 mins

Hanging with the A-list on Hollywood’s glitziest night

At one of the most exclusive afterparties in Los Angeles, Kevin EG Perry soaks up the atmosphere and plenty of margaritas) with billionaires, superstars and Oscar winners

4 mins

Cinema’s king of surreal barely got an Oscars nod

In a ceremony that once championed independent film and individual creativity, why did the show spend more time mourning 007 than David Lynch, asks Clarisse Loughrey

4 mins

How Conan came to rescue the awards from mediocrity

A piano-playing sandworm, gentle jabs at the star of Emilia Perez’, and the right kind of winners... it worked for an awards event increasingly under fire, writes Adam White

4 mins

It’s a knockout...and more peril will raise the intensity

Those in charge of the Champions League have forgotten what made it special in the first place, writes Miguel Delaney

3 mins

European stage can lend a different energy to Gunners

Inside the Philips Stadion, there are reminders of PSV Eindhoven’s past, celebrations of former centre-forwards such as Romario, Ronaldo Nazario and Ruud van Nistelrooy who have graced the club and tormented defenders.

3 mins

And they’re almost off as new racing season looms

Kieran Jackson makes his predictions for the 2025 calendar

5 mins

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