The Independent - 06.08.2019

TUESDAY 6 AUGUST 2019 Five years on, has the world forgotten about the Yazidis? In our series on life at The Independent, Richar ...

They wait in the knowledge that the perpetrators of the genocide against them have yet to be properly held to account, and with ...

TUESDAY 6 AUGUST 2019 Common decency for human life has all but disappeared Both Donald Trump and Nigel Farage have colluded in ...

These are not normal times Over the decades, moderates, centrists, left-of-centrists and even those further left have massively ...

TUESDAY 6 AUGUST 2019 Musician who helped to define New Orleans R&B With The Meters and later The Neville Brothers, Art Nevi ...

keyboard skills ensuring The Meters and then The Neville Brothers took the funk and soul sounds of New Orleans to the world. The ...

This unique recording featured the tribe’s street chants as they parade on Mardi Gras day backed by The Meters with the Neville ...

TUESDAY 6 AUGUST 2019 Is there anything more timeless than lying for love? As more people find meaningful relationships online, ...

colada-loving woman he was already seeing, it certainly seemed believable that someone could accidentally go on a date with a mu ...

it’s even higher in the US, at 2 in 5). As these types of connections become more and more commonplace, it unfortunately makes s ...

I created a “test” profile (read as “fake”) for the purposes of exploring the functionality of the app. I grabbed a photo from f ...

doing this) with no stakes and no pressure. There’s not exactly an incentive to be honest online. It’s usually harmless – lying ...

TUESDAY 6 AUGUST 2019 ‘I am lucky to be alive but sometimes I wish I wasn’t’ Amitangshu Acharya learns of the horrors of war dur ...

accent that was scarce in achromatic Edinburgh. “No worries, it happens,” I said, adding, in jest: “You do know that people of c ...

Noa remembers dead Taliban fighters, innocent civilians, children, and his own friends, dismembered, scorched, wounded, bleeding ...

TUESDAY 6 AUGUST 2019 Can I cover 140 miles in 3 hours and catch my flight? You may need to make a dash to the Victoria line at ...

due to arrive at 12.33pm (often I find they get there a couple of minutes early because some slack is built into the timetable). ...

TUESDAY 6 AUGUST 2019 THE WORLD TODAY Millie Bull on the key events from 6 August Andy Warhol was born on this day in 1928 (Gett ...

Deaths: Ben Jonson, 1637, English writer; Bix Beiderbecke, 1931, pianist; Theodor W Adorno, 1969, German philosopher; Fulgencio ...

TUESDAY 6 AUGUST 2019 BIRTHDAYS Actor Barbara Windsor is 82 today (Getty) Martin Beaumont, businessman and chair of Chester Race ...