Let the Work Speak for Itself

Still from Where the Buffalo Roam. Even though I’ve been making these annual appeals for several decades now, I’m a terrible fundraiser. I was even let go as a canvasser right out of college for a Nader-raider environmental outfit working to save...

Parliament Passes First-Reading Amendments to Energy Efficiency Act Establishing National Decarbonization Fund

Parliament Friday voted, 114–19 with 49 abstentions, to approve first-reading amendments to the Energy Efficiency Act that provide for the establishment of a national decarbonization fund. The bill was introduced by Pavela Mitova of There Is Such...

BUX Increased by Over 1% on Short Trading Week

The Budapest Stock Exchange (BSE) share index rose over the past three working days, with the BUX closing at 104,182.83 points on Wednesday, up 1,214.16 points or 1.18% compared to the previous Friday. Weekly turnover reached HUF 56.86 billion in...

Industrial Players Look to BTS Development Option

These are active in a market that is growing due to increasing logistics demand, as well as the need to meet significant FDI, notably in the electric vehicle and EV-related industries. The latter has finally resulted in the development of I&L hubs...

News digest: Shoplifters gone wild, heritage goes paywall

Hi, Slovakia watchers. Some celebrities think they can do anything — even tag their names beneath Mount Everest. It’s Thursday, 30 October, and you’re reading Today in Slovakia. Article continues after video advertisement Article continues after...

Europe's top 20 hot springs

Sliding into a bathtub after a long day is one of life’s little luxuries – but there’s nothing quite like the restorative high from a dip in a natural thermal pool. From Iceland’s renowned Blue Lagoon to ancient sulfur streams in the Pyrenees,...

Baked Alaska

It is betting that it can be the first to develop solar geoengineering technology, a hypothetical approach that uses aerosols to reflect sunlight away from Earth’s surface to balance out the effects of greenhouse gases. Yanai Yedvab, Stardust’s...

Under Pressure: How Psychology And Leadership Drive Clutch Performance

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - OCTOBER 29: Trey Yesavage #39 of the Toronto Blue Jays celebrates after a double play to end the seventh inning against the Los Angeles Dodgers in game five of the 2025 World Series at Dodger Stadium on October 29, 2025...

Lando Norris shrugs off being booed after winning in Mexico to lead championship

Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...

Stardust Solutions, a Geoengineering Startup, Raises $60 Million to Build a Solar-Reflecting System by 2030

The era of the geoengineering startup has seemingly arrived. Stardust Solutions, a company led by a team of Israeli physicists, announced on Friday that it has raised $60 million in venture capital to develop technological building blocks that it...

The case for kids as Australia’s birth rate hits record low

Australia’s birth rate, which today averages just 1.48 children per adult woman according to new ABS data, is at an all-time low. Australia is not just below the statistical replacement rate, we are spiralling towards demographic collapse. Leaders...

5 Seconds Of Summer Tickets For UK & European Leg Of Everyone's A Star! Tour On Sale 10am Today

Photo: Brian Ziff 5 Seconds Of Summer have announced the Everyone's A Star! World Tour for 2026. 5 Seconds Of Summer tickets go on general sale at 10am local time today. The UK and Ireland leg will come first, calling at arenas in Belfast, Dublin,...

Lando Norris takes F1 world championship lead after dominant display in Mexico

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State Department thought Putin had no interest in ending the war in Ukraine: report

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How Orbán and Erdoğan used Russia's war against Ukraine to tighten their grip on power

Authoritarian regimes consolidated power by sharpening their methods of control, from electoral engineering and digital surveillance to legal and institutional manipulation. In today’s increasingly multipolar world, the rise of regional...

Interview: China's governance model offers insights to world, says expert

(Xinhua) 13:54, October 25, 2025 BUDAPEST, Oct. 25 (Xinhua) -- China's governance model offers valuable insights to countries seeking stability, sustainable growth and social cohesion, Gyula Thurmer, president of the Hungarian Workers' Party, said...

Jeffrey D. Sachs, Sybil Fares – From Illusion to Real Peace: Trump’s Test in Gaza and Ukraine

Real peace demands Palestinian statehood, Ukrainian neutrality and the courage to defy the war lobby Jeffrey D. Sachs is a University Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, where he directed The...

Profile reports second-best year ever but turnover down on 2023-24 peak

Profile has reported its "second-best year ever", with an annual turnover to the financial year ending March 2025 of £21.5m, though down on last year’s £23.5m peak (2023-24). This peak was a 27% jump from 2022-23, attributed in part to the success...

Israel approves expansion of Ben-Gurion Airport’s Terminal 3

El Al planes parked near terminal 3 and the airport tower control at Ben Gurion International Airport, August 8, 2020. (Photo: Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90) The Israel Airports Authority has approved a large-scale expansion of Ben-Gurion Airport’s...

Why Authoritarians Thrive

By Senem Aydın-Düzgit US President Donald Trump’s ferocious assault on American institutions over the last nine months is a particularly morbid symptom of the global decline of democracy. But Trump has merely capitalized on a process that was well...