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Christopher McGowan was on five bail orders at the time of the murder of Claire Inglis in Stirling, Scotland

The music industry and global fans turned on Milli Vanilli after revelations that the duo did not actually provide vocals for their famous songs. A new documentary explores the group’s fall from grace – as surviving member Fab Morvan muses about how much has changed. Sheila Flynn reports

Dense super fog in Louisiana caused one massive multi-car pile-up and dozens of other crashes on Monday

A staffer at George Clooney’s production house Smokehouse Pictures told The Independent they were ‘still thick in production on’ blockbuster documentary

Hamas, who took more than 200 hostages in an attack in Israel two weeks ago, said it released the hostages – two elderly Israeli women – on ‘humanitarian grounds’

The forum comes as the House will vote to pick a new nominee in the third week without a speaker

Asghari filed for divorce from Spears on Wednesday citing ‘irreconcilable differences’ as reason for split

President responds to question from The Independent’s White House correspondent Andrew Feinberg on Hamas’ release of two hostages and the possibility of a ceasefire