The Independent looks at a vanishing breed - the investigative journalist.

Jess Hamill added to New Zealand's medal tally overnight when she finished second in the parasport shot put.

Report shows wealthy people are least likely to care about cleanliness or to enjoy housework.

Since it opened in 1872, Hastings Pier has hosted everyone from Victorian holidaymakers to the Rolling Stones.

A bomb has exploded outside a shopping centre in the Northern Irish city of Londonderry.

Kate Atkinson began as a prize-winning literary novelist with Behind the Scenes At The Museum and has reinvented herself by using the tropes of detective fiction.

As violence recedes, many people wantto have contentious murals removed from everyday life.

London insurers have radical plans to reduce seaborne hijackings.

Dannii Minogue has opened up about the loves of her life in her autobiography, My Story.

A Peru-born Aucklander now living in London is set to be the first New Zealander to appear on the popular British version of The Apprentice.

Glamour.com's top 10 best dressed British men.

Glamour.com's top 10 best dressed women in Britain.

You have to be tough to survive in Orkney, writes Peter Calder.

It's female nature to overcome difficulties as a community, be it making the tea or getting the vote.

The Independent's Susie Rushton explains why, for her, attempting to monitor daily calorie intake is pure folly.

Greg Henderson might not be flying British Airways again after his world road championships preprations were stalled by a lost bike.

John le Carre takes the reader into the vicious underside of the global free market.