The world of CFDs can be intimidating if you are a newcomer to them. Even once you’ve wrapped your head around the way they work, there’s still a lot to get to grips with them. Let’s say you’ve got some money set aside, and have found a reputable broker, what then? Stick To What You Know! The first thing to work out when considering what CFD is best for you is to consider your own background – what industries and...

This is the dramatic moment a surfer was rescued after more than 30 hours clinging to his surfboard - 13 miles out to sea. Lucky Matthew Bryce, 22, was found after a major search and rescue operation was launched when he was reported missing on Sunday morning. He was eventually spotted by a helicopter around 7.30pm on Monday evening - 13 miles off the west coast of Scotland. His body temperature was low but rescuers say he survived thanks to...

A hospice is giving terminally ill patients the chance to experience the world through virtual reality - just like an episode of hit TV series Black Mirror. Dying patients can enter a virtual world where they can walk on a beach or through woods by wearing a set of high-tech goggles. The exciting opportunity is being offered to terminally ill patients who may be prevented from travelling due to their illness and want to be able to see places they...

There could not be a better time to write a play about revolutionary commitment and individual freedom. Journalist Paul Mason’s piece about working class female communards exiled to New Caledonia on the back of a colonial project for their part in the 1871 Parisian uprising asks hard questions about what happens to personal freedom and culpability when revolutions are defeated. Mason has drawn on three sources for this almost biographical work focused on anarchist, feminist, teacher, ethnographer and revolutionary Louise...

By Jay Williams  Arriving early, I mooched around outside new Farringdon rib joint Hammer & Tongs just long enough to hear a member of staff outside muttering darkly into his mobile “we’ve got a reviewer coming in again tonight”.  Kind of how you might expect one of the three little pigs to say “we’ve got a wolf popping round again this evening”.  But after returning to our table later, a quick Google revealed the restaurant had recently been rinsed by...

On May 20th and 21st the British Library will be transformed as the ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival animates its iconic spaces for the first time in celebration of this cultural partnership. The British Library will present a sumptuous showcase of South Asia's literary heritage, oral and performing arts, music, cinema and illusion, books and ideas, dialogue and debate, Bollywood and politics in the context of this broader view of India and its relationship to the United Kingdon.2017 marks the fourth...

On a personal note, a stored image returns to the forefront of my thoughts as summoned by the reading of Bill Hayes' achingly beautiful memoir Insomniac City. It is a February night in 2010, a Toronto winter considering an early spring, a night four hours' distant from consideration of a whispering dawn. I am stood outside an all-hours McDonald's smoking the fifth cigarette of the first pack after I had given up quitting. My eyes followed the mix of smoke...

Night after night the misery of war is pumped out across our TV screens, our social media and on the pages of our newspapers, and yet, even in the face of war, people are driven to show extraordinary acts of courage and humanity. Like Antonina and Jan Zabinski, the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo who helped to save hundreds of people and animals during the German invasion and whose story is told in the film The Zookeeper's Wife that was...

This is the bizarre moment a Mission Impossible-style raider was caught on CCTV crawling across the floor of a village pub during a late night burglary. The crook was seen wriggling between bar stools and tables to avoid triggering the alarm system in the third break-in at the pub in 18 months. The latest raid took place at Smithy’s Marina Bar in Shardlow, Derbys., just before 3am on Wednesday (26/4). The thief used tools to force open the door and...