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Irish Independent
16-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Independent
Huge fire engulfs main stage at Tomorrowland two days before festival starts
©UK Independent Today at 17:45 The main stage at Tomorrowland festival in Belgium has been 'severely damaged' in a huge fire. The annual festival in the town of Boom, north of Brussels, which is scheduled to start Friday, draws tens of thousands of visitors from around Europe.
Irish Independent
16-07-2025
- Politics
- Irish Independent
Secret UK data breach that put 100,000 Afghans' lives at risk is revealed after super-injunction lifted
©UK Independent Today at 00:30 A data breach at the UK's ministry of defence (MoD) put the lives of up to 100,000 Afghans at risk and prompted thousands to be evacuated to the UK under a covert £7bn (€8bn) scheme, it was revealed yesterday. The scheme was kept secret for almost two years by an unprecedented super-injunction.
Irish Independent
14-07-2025
- Science
- Irish Independent
Scientists try to bring 12-foot bird back from 600-year extinction – and director Peter Jackson is helping them
©UK Independent Today at 00:30 A Texas-based company with backing from Lord of the Rings filmmaker Peter Jackson is trying to bring a giant bird back from extinction. Colossal Biosciences has announced an effort to genetically engineer living birds to resemble the extinct South Island giant moa, which once stood 12 feet tall (3.6 metres), with $15m (€13m) in funding from Jackson. The collaboration also includes the New Zealand-based Ngai Tahu Research Centre.
Irish Independent
14-07-2025
- Business
- Irish Independent
Most people in France, Germany, Italy and Spain would be in favour of UK rejoining EU on new terms, poll finds
©UK Independent Today at 00:30 Most people in the four largest countries in the European Union would welcome the UK back into the bloc, a new poll has found – but not on the same terms it had before. At the same time, most Britons are in favour of rejoining the EU, the YouGov survey of six western European nations found, but only if they could keep the opt-outs the UK previously had, such as remaining outside the Schengen zone and keeping its own currency.
Irish Independent
10-07-2025
- Climate
- Irish Independent
Hero dog saves 67 villagers from landslide in India's Himalayan region
©UK Independent Today at 00:30 A dog's frantic barking in the middle of the night saved the lives of 67 people in a Himalayan village before a massive landslide swept away their homes. Residents of Siyathi village in Mandi district, in India's northern state of Himachal Pradesh, said their five-month-old dog began barking around 1am on June 30, just as heavy rains triggered a slope collapse that destroyed at least a dozen houses.
