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Sarah Murdoch, the supermodel daughter-in-law of media baron Rupert Murdoch, announces the wrong winner of Australia’s next Top Model in an error dubbed the country’s “most awkward TV moment”.
With less than a fortnight to go before the Commonwealth Games open in Delhi, organisers face protests over the state of accommodation as a bridge collapses and three English athletes pull out.
The Ministry of Defence dismisses as “speculation” a report Britain and France could share their naval aircraft carriers in a bid to maintain military strength in the face of planned cost-cuts.
With the UN saying CIA use of drones in Pakistan is “illegal”, Channel 4 News correspondent Sarah Smith visits an army base training soldiers to use them as America’s main weapon against al-Qaida.
Nick Clegg says the MoD employs one civilian for every 2 serving military members of staff – but does his claim give the full picture?
The Channel 4 News Iraq Inquiry blogger looks ahead to the day’s evidence.
Gary Gibbon
It’s sepulchral in the room itself. Reg Keys, sitting in the second row, stares grimly at the TV screen of Blair’s face unflinchingly. Mr Blair’s bodyguards – one standing, one sitting – stare out at the public. Mr Blair himself often seems to be in political more than “lessons learned” inquiry mode.
Jon Snow
Hard on the heels of spending a staggering £422m on eight Chinooks that have still never flown, the first-class brains in our MoD have come up with another ruse: a “super hangar” built at a cost of £113m in Wales to provide engineering services for the RAF. Splendid!
Once a place where the fossil fuel Klondike brought pioneering energy change generations ago, now Orkney pushes the green energy revolution.
We spoke to Tony Smith, a former Director General of the UK Border force and head of Border Control, who’s now a global border security consultant.
We spoke to Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Liam Dutton
Unseasonably wet and windy weather will hit the UK this week. Does this mean that summer is over?
There are increasing reports of international care workers being ripped off, abused and exploited. Now the Royal College of Nursing is calling on the government to launch a full and urgent investigation.
The regulator says reliance on foreign fees is an “increasingly precarious model”.
Being put into care miles away from home can have a devastating impact on young lives, as one young woman explained to Ayshah Tull.