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When the first fully illustrated version of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone hits the nation's bookshops on 6 October, some readers might be forgiven for thinking they've seen the pictures already. The first of JK Rowling's world-conquering novels about a wizard school and its inhabitants has been given such visual solidity through the movies, the merchandising and the Potterworld website (not to mention the maturing faces of the three main characters seen on press and television), it's... Читать дальше...

The top 20 goalkeepers on FIFA 16 have been revealed as EA Sports continues to leak out information ahead of the games highly-anticipated launch on 22 September.

Today marks a watershed moment in an emotive argument that divides Britain, with MPs debating a change in the law which would allow doctors to help people to die.

After 88 days, nearly two dozen debates and countless meetings to woo the party faithful, by midday on 12 September Labour will have a new leader.

Workers including care staff, sales reps and tradespeople should have the time they spend travelling to and from their first and last jobs of the day classed as work, the European Court of Justice has ruled.

She didn’t actually say “Some of us will fight, fight, and fight again to save the party we love.” But Liz Kendall ended her leadership campaign much in the spirit of Hugh Gaitskell’s speech just before the Labour conference voted for unilateral nuclear disarmament in 1960.

Labour’s candidate for Mayor of London is set to be announced, with a close-run result expected between Dame Tessa Jowell and Sadiq Khan.

Three ministers have been ordered by David Cameron to pay back taxpayers’ money which they had wrongly claimed, after they were “named and shamed” by the parliamentary expenses watchdog.

Thousands of private landlords will need to step forward to provide accommodation for refugees if the Government is to have any hope of resettling up to 20,000 refugees, campaigners have warned.

The police and civilian leadership of New York City sought on Thursday to apologise to a black former tennis star who was slammed to the floor by five white officers who mistook him as a suspect.

The refugee crisis must be tackled at source: this has been a mantra repeated many times by politicians as accusations and recriminations fly across a Europe divided over how to deal with the thousands of dispossessed people arriving at its shores.

Regimes criticised for “appalling” human rights records have been extended official invitations by the Government to attend the world’s largest arms and security fair in London, The Independent can reveal.

Less than a fortnight after his move to Real Madrid collapsed, David De Gea could yet sign a new contract with Manchester United after his agent arrived at their Carrington training base to open talks with the club.

When Derek Adams, the manager of Plymouth Argyle, declares he is not afraid to “put noses out of joint”, it will come as no surprise to anybody who knows his history north of the border.

Peter Robinson has resigned as Northern Ireland's First Minister as the power-sharing agreement came close to collapse.

What is it that makes American authors excel at depicting marriage? Where the British excel at romance (as at children’s fiction), it is to Henry James, Alison Lurie, John Updike and Jeffrey Eugenides whom we turn to when searching for what may happen in adult life. Alice Hoffman’s The Marriage of Opposites is one of the best novels on the subject to be published this year, not least because the opposites of its title embrace not just gender but race, class and religion.

Much to the amazement and probable annoyance of the long-form purists, one of the side effects of the game’s shortest format has been the renaissance of the spinner. In this season’s Twenty20 Blast, seven of the 20 leading wicket-takers were slow bowlers.

In the traditional manner of travel narratives, Deep South begins with a statement of intent. “Having seen the rest of the world, I… planned to take one long trip through the South in the autumn, before the Presidential election of 2012, and write about it”,  Theroux tells us. It sounds a simple enough plan but, as so many have been before him, he is ambushed by his subject, returning to this neglected, contradictory corner of America repeatedly over a period of almost two years, held “sometimes in a comforting embrace... Читать дальше...

Scott Brash had a choice, the kind that leaves you no room for manoeuvre. He is the world’s finest show jumper, his horse, Hello Sanctos, may be the best the sport has ever seen.

Matter-of-fact in style and yet somehow as tantalising as his other novels, the terse memoir Pedigree raises questions even as it answers them. Son of a stateless Jewish father from Salonica and a Flemish bit-part actress, Jean Patrick Modiano grew up neglected and rejected by both parents. From birth an outcast mongrel, either scorned or kicked, "I'm a dog who pretends to have a pedigree." In order to evade deportation to the death camps, his father Albert had during the Occupation gone underground... Читать дальше...

David Cameron is “gravely concerned” about the political situation in Northern Ireland, Downing Street has said as the devolved government in Belfast came close to collapse this afternoon.

The sale of Rafael during the summer is believed to have been the cause of the row between leading Manchester United squad members and manager Louis van Gaal, with players also angry at the prominence given to video analyst Max Reckers by the Dutchman.

Police are investigating the death of a seriously-ill prison inmate after guards were caught on CCTV dragging him from his cell and dumping his limp body into a van.

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A decomposing body has been found in woodland near a popular boating lake in London, reportedly concealed inside an Ikea bag.