Carl Dinnen

The National Lottery operator Camelot is to mount a legal challenge after the Gambling Commission ruled that the Health Lottery was not acting unlawfully.

After six British soldiers are presumed killed in an explosion in Afghanistan, pushing the death toll above the 400 mark, Channel 4 News asks how so many could have died in a newly-reinforced vehicle?

A new exhibition of gadgets that could revolutionise the future of Paralympic sports has been unveiled, with a mind-controlled bobsleigh and a new sport called canonball among the entries.

As paedophile priest Daniel Curran is sentenced in Northern Ireland, one of his victims tells Carl Dinnen: ‘I am bringing the Devil’s disciple to justice.’

The ICRC says the Red Crescent has begun evacuating women and children from the besieged Syrian city of Homs – and wants all the sick and injured to be allowed to leave “without exceptions”.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn is questioned by French police investigating allegations of sex parties with prostitutes in Paris and Washington paid for by company executives.

Police investigating The Sun newspaper are said to be looking at suspected “sustained criminality” as the war of words between Rupert Murdoch and his staff intensifies.

Vladimir Putin’s anti-democratic reforms and his decision to stand for president again have galvanised protest in Russia. Channel 4 News assesses the parties and the politicians who oppose him.

Plans to reform the NHS in England are set to be heavily criticised by an influential cross-party group of MPs but the health minister tells Channel 4 News the NHS “has to evolve”.

Dissident republican Brian Shivers, who is terminally ill, is convicted of murdering two British soldiers in Northern Ireland but his co-accused Colin Duffy walks free.

MPs and insurance companies say the increase in whiplash claims is to blame for the rise in motor insurance premiums – and make Britain the whiplash capital of Europe. Carl Dinnen reports.

Consumer groups welcome energy supplier EDF’s decision to cut gas prices by 5 per cent – but should it have been more? An EDF executive defends the decision to Channel 4 News.

At least three people are dead and over 100 are injured after a man threw explosives and opened fire and near a crowded Christmas market in the Belgian city of Liege.

Chelsea’s Russian billionaire owner, Roman Abramovich, hit back at allegations that he “intimidated” Boris Berezovsky out of billions of pounds by calling him a “megalomaniac”. Carl Dinnen reports.

A former member of the IRA, a gay rights activist and a Eurovision song contest winner – Carl Dinnen looks at some of the colourful candidates hoping to become the next President of Ireland.