Microsoft open-sourced the MS-BASIC language. Bill Gates would never have seen this coming back in the day. MS-BASIC 1.1 was many developers' first language. In 1976, they rebranded Altair BASIC to ...

When Angela Rayner, the now-former deputy prime minister and housing secretary, was caught underpaying stamp duty on her £800,000 seaside flat, it was widely expected that she would step down. The ...

Angela Rayner's explanation for her failure to pay the correct stamp duty on her home in Hove rests on a claim that she was wrongly advised about her tax exposure when buying the property earlier this ...

The border wall built during the Trump administration now stands along roughly 190 miles of Arizona's border with Mexico. • It's 30 feet tall in most places. • Its steel bollards are six inches wide ...

In the UK, levies are charged on property purchases, with higher charges due on more expensive homes and second homes. The UK's deputy prime minister, Angela Rayner, resigned on Friday after an ...

British prime minister Keir Starmer on Friday appointed foreign minister David Lammy as deputy prime minister in a major cabinet reshuffle following the resignation of Angela Rayner over a tax ...

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 ...

Angela Rayner has admitted she did not pay the right amount of stamp duty on the purchase of her second home and has referred herself to the independent adviser on ministerial standards. Speaking to ...

Angela Rayner has stepped down from her position in the UK government following an investigation into tax dealings surrounding the purchase of her new home. The deputy prime minister, who has been Sir ...

Angela Rayner’s new seaside apartment in Hove has been vandalised after it was targeted overnight. The £800k seafront flat was sprayed with offensive graffiti branding her a “Tax Evader". It is ...

Angela Rayner is battling for her political future over the admission she underpaid tax on her £800,000 seaside flat. In a bombshell interview on Wednesday, the Deputy PM said she had received ...