Meabh Ritchie

Silk Road was the Amazon or eBay of the “dark web”. Now former buyers claim they have lost thousands in bitcoins after it was shut down, the virtual currency’s value has tumbled.

Austerity kids: young people in Ireland are demonstrating against education cuts and rising student fees. One student on the march tells Channel 4 News about the “mental strain” of having no money.

Tory chairman Grant Shapps calls for an investigation into the UN official who raised concerns about the so-called bedroom tax, saying she was influenced by “political bias”.

Ahead of a Tory MP-led Commons debate on new family migration rules, Channel 4 News speaks to a family divided across the Atlantic – and a mother forced to miss her son’s first day at school.

Almost 100,000 people have died as a result of Syria’s two year conflict. Why did it take the suspicion of chemical gas for the west to consider intervention? Channel 4 News reports.

Up to 4,000 pubs are set to close their doors in the next year – but they are “stuck in the 1980s” anyway, says the Good Pub Guide 2014. Channel 4 News looks at what makes a good pub.

It is festival time in Edinburgh and the city is heaving. But what is life like outside the bubble – and is there any sign of recovery further afield? #c4newspopup takes to the streets to find out.

Tourism is Cumbria’s lifeline but how are local people faring after a deep recession and is there enough there to keep young talent at home? #c4newspopup in the Lake District.

Ritalin prescriptions are up by over 50 per cent since 2007. But many adults are getting it from the underground web to help with high-pressure studying. Channel 4 News speaks to one of them.

It’s official: temperatures over 24 degrees improve our mood, say experts in mood analysis. Channel 4 News looks at why heatwaves make us happy.

The father of baby Joshua Titcombe, who died in hospital, tells Channel 4 News he felt physically sick on learning that Cynthia Bower ordered the CQC failings cover-up and calls for a wider inquiry.

After the Prism spying scandal exposed the vulnerabilities of our online data, we sent the Channel 4 News Data Baby to an information security company to find out the extent of her online footprint.

Six years on from Israel’s imposed blockade of Gaza, Channel 4 News speaks to the tech entrepreneurs bypassing the blockade and developing software for the global online market.

After reports that the US government is able to mine the servers of the country’s seven biggest technology companies, including Google and Facebook, Channel 4 News looks at what it means for UK users.

The American author AM Homes beats Hilary Mantel and Zadie Smith to the Women’s Prize for Fiction for her sixth novel, May We Be Forgiven.