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8/14/2014: FRONT PAGE: British troops on their way to Iraq British military personnel “will play a role” in rescuing thousands of refugees trapped by Islamist fighters in northern Iraq, David Cameron said, after cutting short his holiday to oversee the evacuation. Downing Street said the mission could begin... 8/14/2014: FRONT PAGE: Tory donor ennobled under false pretences, say Sikhs Downing Street deliberately created a misleading impression about a major Conservative Party donor who was awarded a peerage by David Cameron last week, The Independent has learnt. Ranbir Singh Suri, 79, a jewellery magnate who is one of Britain’s... 8/14/2014: NEWS: Treating Africa Desperate times call for desperate measures, and the situation in West Africa unquestionably deserves to be put in that category. So far, more than 1,000 people have died as a result of the worst known outbreak of the Ebola virus. In response, the... 8/14/2014: NEWS: Disunited States The precise facts surrounding the death of Michael Brown, the unarmed black student shot and killed by a white police officer last Saturday afternoon in a poor suburb of the Midwestern US city of St Louis, are inevitably in dispute. But the broader...

PROFILE: The Independent is national morning newspaper published in London by Independent Print Limited, owned since 2010 by the former KGB officer Alexander Lebedev. It is nicknamed the Indy, while the Sunday edition, The Independent on Sunday, is the Sindy. Launched in 1986, it is one of the youngest UK national daily newspapers. The Indy has become known for its unorthodox and campaigning front pages, which frequently rely on bold images, graphics or lists rather than traditional headlines and written news content. The Independent is regarded as leaning to the left politically, making it primarily a competitor to The Guardian, even though it still features some conservative columnists and tends to take a classical liberal, pro-market, stance on economic issues. Profile extracted from Wikipedia and used under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.

Circulation: 180,743 (April 2011)   Political Outlook: Centre-Left, Liberal   See our UK Newspaper Guide.