Manisha (She/Her): A technology enthusiast who enjoys gaming and writing about it. Also Manisha: A couch potato who loves to binge on anime, memes and food. After several weeks of silence, Valheim has ...

Saying "Happy May Day" on May 1 this year may illicit different responses from different people. Some people might ask you if you're going to a worker's rights protest, others could inquire about the ...

I wish I had danced around a Maypole with my mother. I’m not sure why it didn’t happen at least once in her 101 years. At the very least, I wish I had told her I wanted to. “Mom let’s celebrate my ...

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 ...

While I had vaguely heard of the Maypole dance over the years, the first one I experienced in person involved schoolchildren in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park. My son had enrolled as a fifth grader in ...

A Leeds village with Britain's largest maypole is "unhappy" with a modernised ceremony as the tradition has been “devalued” in recent years. Barwick-in-Elmet is home to Britain’s tallest maypole, ...

KÜHBACH, Germany — As the brass band played Bavarian tunes and the villagers drank their beer, watched and cheered, the young men of Kühbach in southern Germany pushed up their new maypole with long ...