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The US Women’s National Team has advanced to its second-straight World Cup final after beating Germany 2-0 on Tuesday night in Montreal.

Epping is basically in Essex. In fact, it is literally in Essex, beyond the M25, 15 miles north-east of Trafalgar Square. As the terminal station on the Central Line, it is also, on the hottest day for about a decade, in the hottest place in the country, the gateway to London's molten core, via the hottest line on the Tube network.

Parliament could be asked to authorise British air strikes against Isis positions in Syria within months, it has emerged, as part of the UK’s response to the attack on holiday-makers in Tunisia. The Defence Secretary, Michael Fallon, said MPs would need to think “very carefully” about how to tackle an “evil caliphate” that did not respect national borders.

John Palmer, one of Britain’s wealthiest and most notorious criminals whose nickname was “Goldfinger”, was murdered, police have said. 

Patients will be told the price of every drug they are prescribed that costs the NHS more than £20 in a scheme to help reduce waste and encourage patients to complete courses of medicine.

Forget about Hamlet without the Prince. This was King Kong without the gorilla.

England’s new coach has issued his first rallying cry. It confirmed that the Ashes series which starts next week will be no place for the faint-hearted.

House prices near fracking sites could fall by up to 7 per cent, insurance premiums may rise and those living nearby could suffer indirect health problems, a government report warns.

The Government will decide on airport expansion plans within a year, the Prime Minister has announced following the publication of a long-awaited report.

Liam Broady’s singles campaign came to an end with defeat by David Goffin but the Briton will take plenty of positives from his first appearance in the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament.

Tunisian jihadists linked to Isis have drawn up a target list for the coming months that includes alcohol stores, bars, the country’s main airport, the tourist resort island of Djerba and the security forces, The Independent has learned.

Tunisian jihadists linked to Isis have drawn up a target list for the coming months that includes alcohol stores, bars, the country’s main airport, the tourist resort island of Djerba and the security forces, The Independent has learned.

The improbable tennis rise of Kazakhstan – the remote former Soviet republic bordering China where they used to test nuclear weapons and send exiles – puts those plastic Brits controversies into some kind of perspective.

Those unfamiliar with Harmondsworth – one of three villages that would be destroyed should the Heathrow expansion go ahead – might be forgiven for thinking it is just another commuter village, but an impressive 600-year-old, Grade I listed barn and the 11th-century St Mary’s Church prove otherwise. 

A return flight to New York may have to rise by hundreds of pounds if the UK wants to build a third runway at Heathrow and still meet its environmental commitments, according to an analysis of Sir Howard Davies’s airport report.

David Cameron faces the biggest dilemma of his second term over whether to approve plans for a third runway at Heathrow Airport in the face of a Cabinet revolt by five ministers who oppose the scheme.

Award-winning novelist Louise Doughty has hit out at short-termism among UK publishers and called on the industry to commit to authors that do not write break-out bestsellers, saying the next Hilary Mantel “could slip through our fingers”.

When MPs were electing a successor to the formidable Margaret Hodge to chair Parliament’s most important committee, the Public Accounts Committee, last month, they could have chosen Gisela Stuart, who is known for her contempt for “rudderless leaders who drift with the political wind”, or Helen Goodman, who would have brought specialist knowledge to the post, as a former Treasury civil servant. Instead, they chose Meg Hillier, whose greatest distinction is that Ed Miliband sacked her from the shadow Cabinet because she was hopeless. Читать дальше...

It’s hard to tell from the drab waiting area at Camberwell Green magistrates’ court in south London, but the wheels of British justice are starting to turn more slowly than usual.

Lorry drivers sweltered in huge tailbacks on both sides of the Channel as the French ferry workers blocked the port of Calais for the third day running.

Lorry drivers sweltered in huge tailbacks on both sides of the Channel as the French ferry workers blocked the port of Calais for the third day running.

It’s the long and the short of it today when Petra Kvitova, a  six-footer, takes on little Kurumi Nara, who at 5ft 1in is just about the shortest player on the tour. One of the great things about our sport is that a good big ’un doesn’t necessarily always beat a good little ’un and Nara finished last year as a top-50 player.

Musicians including Futureheads star Barry Hyde have decried the closure of a venue that has become a “central part of the Sunderland music and arts world” over the past two years.

Musicians including Futureheads star Barry Hyde have decried the closure of a venue that has become a “central part of the Sunderland music and arts world” over the past two years.

Trevor Bayliss was wearing jeans, sensible heavy-duty black shoes and an England training top which seemed already to fit familiarly with every curve of his body. His greying hair is cropped short, his glasses are rimless, he had not shaved.