Two acts who are up from London and one over from New York bring their own brands of humour to Edinburgh: reviews of shows ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Six adults with peanut allergy have become more tolerant of peanuts after swallowing capsules containing the faeces of someone with no food allergies. The finding from the small clinical trial adds to ...

One of the great benefits of London in summer is the stacked line-ups at comedy clubs as performers try out their new material at Work in Progress (WIP) shows. It’s often a chance to see top quality ...

High in the forested canopy of Democratic Republic of Congo, an all-black monkey turned its back to a photographer’s camera. The partial image taken in 2008 revealed little more than the monkey’s dark ...

Punch, the monkey who was abandoned by his mother after being born, is growing up. He celebrated his first birthday on Sunday with about 2,500 cards from around the world. The letters are on display ...

Now settled among more than 60 monkeys on Monkey Mountain, Punch depends on his toy less each day Punch, a Japanese macaque abandoned at birth, bonded with a plush orangutan that helped him survive ...

Lab tests back claims that faeces have polluted Gostivar's drinking water, causing a major health crisis – with more than 3,000 locals falling ill so far. The centre of Gostivar, North Macedonia.

A new species of monkey with an orange patch on its lips was discovered living in the rainforests of the Democratic Republic of Congo and is considered "one of the rarest discoveries in modern ...

Deep in the Congolese rainforest, scientists have discovered a new species of monkey so elusive even local communities knew little of its existence. Dubbed “Likweli,” it sports a black coat, a pink ...

This wildlife news is bananas. Researchers were taken aback when they discovered a new species of black-furred monkey in Congo that sports distinctive orange lips and utters unique vocalizations. The ...

A newly discovered species of monkey with distinctive orange lips has been discovered deep in the forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The small primate, called Colobus congoensis, was ...