Health chiefs say more emergency cases will be treated and sent home the same day in a bid to free up scarce beds. They claim it will ease pressure on casualty units and be welcomed by patients who are often keen to return home without an overnight stay. But patient groups last night warned it could put people at risk […]

MADRID (Reuters) – Loudly banging pots and pans, a few hundred women protesters gathered in Madrid in the early hours of Friday to mark the start of International Women’s Day. The women – some wearing purple bags and clothes, and holding banners that read “Sister I do believe you” – met at midnight in Puerta del Sol square in the […]

Even a $273 million jackpot isn’t enough for this lottery winner’s ex-wife to want him back. Eileen Murray told The Post on Thursday she has no plans to get back together with her ex, Mega Millions Jackpot winner Mike Weirsky, — and won’t be calling him anytime soon. “He’s not appealing to me all of a sudden because he has […]

“Pharma bro” Martin Shkreli isn’t letting his long stint in a New Jersey federal prison slow him down any — using a contraband cellphone to tweet, publish a self-congratulatory blog, and even run his notorious, price-gouging drug company, according to a new report. Oh, and his pals call him “A–hole.” Shkreli continues to run his pharmaceutical company, Phoenixus AG, from […]

Britain has taken its strongest action yet against Iran over the jailing of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe by deciding to grant the British-Iranian dual national diplomatic protection. It is the first time in living memory that the government has invoked this international legal tool in protest at the treatment of one of its citizens by another state. The move elevates Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s […]

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United States accused Iran on Thursday of defying a U.N. Security Council resolution with one ballistic missile test and two satellite launches since December and urged the council to “bring back tougher international restrictions” on Tehran. A 2015 U.N. resolution “called upon” Iran to refrain for up to eight years from work on ballistic missiles […]

OTTAWA (Reuters) – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday denied interfering in Canada’s judicial system as he sought to defuse a month-long crisis threatening his political future, but offered no apology, asserting only that lessons had been learned. The crisis has prompted the resignations of former Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould, the Treasury Board president, Jane Philpott, and Trudeau’s closest political […]

The PM’s last ditch plea comes as her high stakes stand-off with Europe’s bosses over the Irish backstop rolls into a third day. With talks still stalled after Tuesday’s Brussels bust up, Attorney General Geoffrey Cox last night called off a new trip to the Belgian capital today – with only four days to go until a final Commons showdown. […]

Vancouver Fire Rescue Services are asking people to do their due diligence before making social media posts, after they say a local business’s reputation was damaged. VFRS Public Information Officer Jonathan Gormick said the problem started when crews responded to a fire at a business on Triumph Street on Jan. 14. A tweet posted on Jan. 14 by Vancouver Fire […]

DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran’s Supreme Leader appointed hardline cleric Ebrahim Raisi as the new head of the judiciary on Thursday, the state news agency IRNA said. The appointment of Raisi, 58, a protégé of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, positions him to undermine the influence of moderates under President Hassan Rouhani in Iran’s complicated multi-tiered power structure. “I am appointing […]