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Lisa Salmon asks experienced older travellers the travel lessons they’ve learned

Having never travelled alone, Olivia Kerley was nervous to leap into the unknown – but a group adventure through Morocco proved the perfect combination of solo but supported

Spring break was once a travel ritual associated with college students, but today it’s a vacation period for many more – we’ve rounded up spots from Florida to California to suit all types of…

These are the countries tipped to be trendy this year, from Kyrgyzstan to Mallorca

The first exhibition will feature a London-based artist

More parents than ever were given financial penalties for term-time travel last year. Dominique Afacan says that shame prevents her from doing the same

From soju bars to community-run clubs, Yvette Cook explores what makes K-town one of California’s most dynamic districts

Exclusive: Experts say women and girls routinely overlooked by health professionals as autism wrongly thought of as male disorder

Exclusive: Small designs lead to big changes in the completely redesigned tablet, designer tells The Independent

Too many people associate the guitar with white indie rockers then blame the ‘death of rock’ for the instrument’s demise. But the six-string is being used best elsewhere, says Roisin O’Connor, and the…

The Lib Dems have called for a hefty penalty to be placed on those who play music out loud on public transport

People in northern India are posting pictures of the mountain range after the peaks came back into view

German power producers are poised to pay customers to use electricity this weekend.  Wind generation is forecast to climb to a record on Sunday, creating more output than needed and driving electricity prices below zero, broker data compiled by Bloomberg show. It would be the first time this year that the average price for a whole day is negative, not just for specific hours.

‘The recent progress of renewables means that fossil fuel-dominated projections are no longer realistic,’ says researcher

Known as ‘Mt. Fuji Lawson’, the spot became famous after a photo taken in an angle showing Mount Fuji in the background

Whether buying those must-have matcha lattes or deciding that skiing in Japan is a must because Europe is ‘so over’, beware of how social media influences your spending habits, writes money coach…

Solar energy costs have fallen 90 per cent over the last decade, while new discoveries have seen efficiency rates rise

Sweden is so good at recycling that, for several years, it has imported rubbish from other countries to keep its recycling plants going. Less than 1 per cent of Swedish household waste was sent to landfill last year or any year since 2011. We can only dream of such an effective system in the UK, which is why we end up paying expensive transport costs to send rubbish to be recycled overseas rather than paying fines to send it to landfill under The Landfill Tax of 1996. 

I clutched at everything I could find to validate my instinct that transgender identities were a millennial fad. But when I stopped to listen to my trailblazing sister, I saw that her son was thriving

From off-radar cities to trips built around one perfect moment, the way we travel in 2026 is changing. Here’s how

Flying city to city in the U.S. doesn’t have to be stressful, says US Travel Editor Ted Thornhill, who reveals the airplane seats that will make the journey a joy, from the back of the plane to the…

There are many titles you didn’t know were on the streaming service

A 19-year-old defeated Magnus Carlsen, often described as the best chess player who ever lived. Chaos followed, reports Richard Hall

Puritans, Goths, avant-garde artists, hell-raising poets and fashion icon Coco Chanel all saw something special in it. Now black, that most enigmatic of colours, has become even darker and more mysterious.

Majority of cats show 'secure attachment' to their humans

Burning hydrogen produces only heat and water, and is attracting billions of dollars in investment