Kim Jong Un admits North Korea is facing its ‘worst ever’ difficulties in rare admission of failure

Kim Jong Un admits North Korea is facing its ‘worst ever’ difficulties in rare admission of failure amid pandemic, US sanctions and spate of natural disasters Kim is facing what appears to be the toughest crisis of his nine-year dictatorship With the economy already troubled, the pandemic has compounded its issues Pandemic-related border closings and … Read more

Drinking more coffee associated with decreased heart failure risk

Just one cup of caffeinated coffee a day can decrease your long-term risk of heart failure by up to 12 per cent, according to findings of a new scientific paper.   US experts looked at dietary information from three large-scale heart disease studies in the US, amounting to more than 21,000 US adults. Overall, they found increasing consumption … Read more

Love Island’s Dani Dyer admits she felt like a ‘failure’ after being forced to have a c-section

‘The baby blues are real’: Love Island’s Dani Dyer admits she felt like a ‘failure’ after being forced to have a c-section with her son Santiago By Sean O’grady For Mailonline Published: 11:01 GMT, 3 February 2021 | Updated: 11:01 GMT, 3 February 2021 Dani Dyer has admitted she felt like ‘a failure’ after having … Read more

Brexit: Britain’s former US ambassador Kim Darroch is blamed for failure to secure US trade deal

Downing Street is studying a damning report that blames Britain’s former ambassador to Washington for Boris Johnson’s failure to strike a post-Brexit trade deal with Joe Biden’s government.  Lord Darroch, who quit his post after a series of explosive memos were published which found that he had called President Donald Trump ‘inept’, ‘insecure’ and ‘incompetent’, is … Read more

Boris Johnson blasts back at Theresa May after she hit out at his ‘moral failure’ in government

Boris Johnson hit back last night at Theresa May’s claim he has abandoned Britain’s position of ‘global moral leadership’. The Prime Minister insisted his predecessor was wrong as he expressed pride at the ‘leading’ role he is playing on the world stage. Writing in yesterday’s Daily Mail, Mrs May suggested Mr Johnson has failed to honour … Read more

Diet full of fried food could increase your risk of heart failure by almost 40%, study suggests 

Diet full of fried food could increase your risk of heart failure by almost 40%, study suggests Eating lots of fried food could increase risk of heart failure by 37 per cent The diet is linked to having a 28 per cent higher chance of heart attacks or stroke The risk rises with each weekly … Read more

WHO warns of ‘catastrophic moral failure’ in global COVID-19 vaccine distribution

The World Health Organization chief on Monday warned that the world was on the brink of a ‘catastrophic moral failure’ on distributing vaccines which were mostly ‘hoovered up’ by wealthy countries. During WHO’s week-long executive board meeting, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus lamented that Guinea received a mere 25 vaccine doses while over 39million jabs have been … Read more

Sophie Ellis-Bextor reveals she ‘felt like a complete failure’ as a parent in first lockdown

Sophie Ellis-Bextor has candidly revealed she ‘felt like a complete failure’ as a parent as she struggled to cope with her five children during the first lockdown. The singer, 41, shares sons Sonny, 16, Kit, 11, Ray, eight, Jesse, five, and Mickey, two, with musician husband Richard Jones, 41. And speaking about how she managed to … Read more

How a new £244-a-year heart failure drug saved a man from needing a transplant

A heart-failure drug that dramatically improves symptoms and helps boost survival has been approved for NHS use – giving new hope to half a million patients. Called dapagliflozin, the daily tablets are already taken by Type 2 diabetics to control blood sugar levels, but the £244-a-year medication will now be offered to those suffering one … Read more

Chinook helicopter gets bogged down in a muddy field after mechanical failure

Chopper comes a cropper: Chinook helicopter gets bogged down in a muddy field after mechanical failure forced it to make emergency landing 20 miles from its base at RAF Benson in Oxfordshire The 40-year-old RAF Chinook was one of the first to join the RAF’s fleet in 1981 and flew in the first Gulf War … Read more