Then essentially you would be a soldier in a forward position, or really anywhere, in Afghanistan! Imagine waking up everyday knowing that it has the potential to be your last. That you may have seen, written or spoken to your parents, friends, wife, girlfriend, etc. for the very last time. Unimaginable right? That's because in the morning when most of us are waking up in a heated house in a ...

John Hemming, Lib Dem MP for Birmingham Yardley, is an unabashed iconoclast. The Independent this week sought to understand what makes him tick a little better. Inevitably there is some focus on his private life — most notoriously brought to public attention by his estranged wife’s stealing of a kitten from his girlfriend’s house —

Student parks Audi, blocking garbage cart, gets into fight with garbage collector, accidentally kills him because he doesn't want to back down in front of the girlfriend. (A quick reminder: Audis are the preferred cars of Chinese officials. This guy...

BBC newsreader Jane Hill is to ‘marry’ a woman cameraman Jane Hill, the BBC newsreader, has accepted a ‘marriage’ proposal from her girlfriend, Sara, a television cameraman. What’s with the ‘ ‘ ? We don’t have or use the phrase “to civil partner” and marry and marriage are perfectly acceptable descriptions. Might not be the

Or, as the helium‑voiced comic Emo Phillips asked his German girlfriend when she moaned about the difficulty of finding a decent bagel in Berlin, “And whose fault’s that?”

Berezovsky's girlfriend witnessed start of meeting that is at the centre of the $6bn lawsuit, hears High Court

New for Topman Winter '11 fashion comes 'misogyny chic', plum shades slotting between the heady glamour of wife beating and comparing your girlfriend to a dog. To many, the concern is how clothing with unapologetically misogynistic branding had ever been put on sale. To Brendan O’Neill, it is that removing them from the hangers is an act that sees the "controlling and censorin...

For my money, Miranda Lambert is the best artist to emerge in country music for a long while, with her Crazy Ex-Girlfriend album being the best of the three so far, but with her later Revolution also containing some fantastic songs. So it is good news that this week Miranda’s new “girl band”, Pistol Annies have now released

You know, I regret not having spent a final day with an ex-girlfriend before she went to Australia. I regret teasing my sister when she was small. I regret having giving away something that made my mum upset. I regret...

Prince William, second in line to the British throne, is to marry his long-term girlfriend in the spring next year at Westminster Abbey, St James's Palace announced