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Caregivers need to take care of themselves, too

Nearly one in four adults in the United States provide care to adults or children with medical conditions or disabilities, and that number is on the rise

The Independent UK · Oct 8

Moment Dexter-obsessed murderer arrested after luring woman to plastic ‘kill room’

Police footage shows the arrest of a murderer obsessed with Dexter, who killed a woman after luring her to a rented room in Sandwell, West Midlands.

The Independent UK · Oct 8

Russia's public health watchdog denies a second infection in suspected pneumonic plague case

Russia’s public health watchdog has denied that a lab worker who died in Siberia had spread infection to another person as global concerns swirled about suspected pneumonic plague

The Independent UK · Oct 8

Christian Horner’s astonishing Red Bull payout confirmed in new documents

The former Red Bull team principal was sacked after 20 years in charge of the championship-winning team

The Independent UK · Oct 8

US puts inmate to death for first time since Christa Pike’s botched execution

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The Independent UK · Oct 8

Google finds 240,000 years’ worth of AI music with new detector tool

SynthID Detector draws on imperceptible watermarks on AI-generated media

The Independent UK · Oct 8

New Australian Open tournament director criticised for ‘Jacob Sinner’ gaffe

Andrew Abdo, who is also the new chief executive of Tennis Australia, later insisted, ‘Of course I know that it’s Jannik Sinner’

The Independent UK · Oct 8

Tesco starts to roll out new feature to 23 million Clubcard customers

The UK’s biggest supermarket began trialling the AI assistant in April

The Independent UK · Oct 8

Strange hole found on moon could lead to future astronaut shelter

Underground caves on moon can shield astronauts from cosmic radiation, micrometeorites, and temperature changes

The Independent UK · Oct 8

A dad went viral for teaching his sons about consent after Cornell 7. It shows how simple these conversations can be

COMMENT : Utah father and content creator Alan Gilliam has documented his conversations with his sons, aged nine and 11, about consent in the wake of the alleged 2024 gang rape by seven members of the Chi Phi fraternity at Cornell University. Ellie Muir asks: If a nine-year-old understands that…

The Independent UK · Oct 8