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Interview: The 27-year-old discusses his difficult upbringing in Russia, working as a bouncer and at McDonald’s to afford a better a education, and his heartbreak at the Paris Olympics

Places where tragedies have occurred, such as Chernobyl, Hiroshima and the killing fields in Cambodia, draw thousands of tourists a year – Amelia Neath explores why people choose to visit these locations

A night out in Los Angeles ended in tragedy when the bodies of two women were dumped outside area hospitals. Christy Giles was dead. Her friend Hilda Cabrales-Arzola was barely alive. David Pearce, the Hollywood producer who partied with them that night, was later charged with their murders, accused of…

Exclusive: Microsoft co-founder tells ‘The Independent’ he tried cannabis because he thought ‘maybe I would look cool’