Footage shows a queue of people, including children, covered in snow after an avalanche struck a valley in Courmayeur.

Nepal’s Shivaratri festival draws huge crowds to Kathmandu as holy men and devotees openly smoke cannabis as part of worship.

The full rollout of the EU’s new Entry/Exit System (EES) is due to come into force on 10 April 2026. But third-party nationals entering the Schengen Zone this summer may still go through manual ...

Stephen Mansfield writes that an orderly line at the bar is a vast improvement on the ‘scrum’ of old. Plus, letters by Jacqueline Douglas and Patrick Cosgrove Anyone who prefers the good old days of a ...

More action needs to be taken to prevent long delays at border control, according to travel bosses. A senior figure in the UK's travel industry has said that several countries using an EU border ...

A cyber attack led to IT outages at several major European airports in September, causing disruption and long queues There are warnings of queues at passport control at airports in Europe over ...

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 ...

Bar owners say they struggle to dissuade people from forming a line as behavioural experts point to post-pandemic ‘new norms’ “I’m not sure what else we can do to be honest,” Paul Loebenberg said, of ...

Abstract: In microservices, requests’ workflows with the complex dependency graphs pose challenges to auto-scaling strategies. This paper presents QueueFlower, an adaptive and dependency- agnostic ...