Telly star Ant McPartlin’s wife Lisa Armstrong has admitted she is “much happier” now they live apart – sparking fears their 11-year marriage really is over. Lisa, 41, has confided in friends that Ant’s public battle with painkiller ­addiction left her “emotionally drained” and “weighed down” with worry. When the I’m A Celebrity host returned…

Nurses and GPs are to be sent to answer 999 calls ahead of ambulance crews in the latest evidence of the winter crisis engulfing the NHS, The Independent can reveal. Health chiefs in the North East have told nurses and GPs they may have to act as “first responders” for patients who have fallen in their own homes or residential homes and may…

These people deserve medals for their dedication.

Cyrus FarivarI’ve never read such a gripping book about spies that opens with the hopeful words: “This is a love story.” Over the course of its hundreds of pages, The Woman Who Smashed Codes by Jason Fagone is damned-near impossible to put down. The book has everything: thrills, chills, kills, love, crypto, and a hopeful…

The fire is affecting the ninth floor of the building (Picture: PA)A fire broke out at a 12-storey apartment building in Manchester this afternoon.  Smoke spread to several floors of the block and one person was taken to hospital suffering from smoke inhalation. Demand for Irish passports soars in the UK post-Brexit Images posted on…

Wer in den USA Faschismus erleben will, muss zu Amazon gehen. Da läuft die Serie The Man in the High Castle, die von einer Welt erzählt, in der die Nazis den Zweiten Weltkrieg gewonnen und die USA erobert haben. Düstere Science-Fiction – oder auch alternative Geschichtsschreibung –, die das amerikanische Gewissen auf unterhaltsame Weise beruhigt.…

There seems to be nothing that can convince Dennis Gartman to turn bullish on bitcoin. Despite tanking this month, bitcoin has still soared over 1,400 percent this year. But Thursday on CNBC’s « Futures Now, » The Gartman Letter editor and publisher reiterated his skepticism on bitcoin’s meteoric rise, a view he has held for the past…

The year was typically full of surprises but market reactions defied conventional wisdom, leaving many a prognosticator flummoxed. Take the global economy. It fired on all cylinders, yet bond yields went nowhere. North Korea threatened nuclear armageddon, and volatility in U.S. equities sank to a record just six weeks later. Mainstream candidates won major elections…

Image copyright Reuters Image caption There are fires in Tehran as protests continue Some of the anti-government protests happening in Iranian cities have turned violent, footage appears to show. Two demonstrators in Dorud in western Iran have sustained gunshot wounds, a video posted on social media and verified by BBC Persian shows. Videos filmed elsewhere…