Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionChildren were among those rescued after Monday’s air strikes in Eastern GhoutaBombardments by Syrian government forces have killed dozens of civilians in the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta area outside Damascus, activists say. At least 77 civilians, including 20 children, were killed in air strikes and rocket fire on…

The first study comes from the lab of CRISPR pioneer Jennifer Doudna. Her team discovered that a CRISPR system different from the CRISPR-Cas9 one we’re used to hearing about can not only snip away specific bits of double-stranded DNA, but can then also cut single-stranded DNA that’s near it. After they uncovered this ability of…

This is the woman accused of leaving an abusive note on the windscreen of an ambulance attending a 999 call. Kirsty Sharman, 26, is due to appear in court on Tuesday after being charged with a public order offence and breaching a restraining order. Police said paramedics attending to an elderly person with breathing difficulties…

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Labour’s deputy leader Tom Watson has launched a major attack against “right-wing” newspapers he accuses of spreading propaganda about Jeremy Corbyn to bolster declining sales. Writing exclusively for The Independent, Mr Watson said the stories making allegations about Mr Corbyn‘s contact with a Czech agent in the 1980s are “false and ridiculous smears” based on…

Most Americans probably don’t know that the Uniform Monday Holiday Bill that Congress passed and President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law in 1968 is why celebrate Presidents’ Day on the third Monday in February. That legislation changed the longstanding tradition of celebrating two exemplary American presidents’ birthdays on separate days in February — the first…

Ciro Immobile broke his goal drought with a brace as Lazio swept Hellas Verona aside 2-0 to surge into fourth place, ending their crisis. This was a very important game at both ends of the table, as the Aquile had one draw from their last five competitive matches, while Hellas were desperate to escape the…

Frustration is mounting in the medical community as the Trump administration again points to mental illness in response to yet another mass shooting. « The concept that mental illness is a precursor to violent behavior is nonsense, » said Dr. Louis Kraus, forensic psychiatry chief at Chicago’s Rush University Medical College. « The vast majority of gun violence…