Gary Gibbon
Historic poll data highlights gap between Brown and Cameron
The gap that has opened up between Gordon Brown’s approval ratings and David Cameron’s is among the biggest between any PM and opposition leader since 1983.
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Manchester United makes £84m loss
Manchester United – seen as one of the richest football clubs in the world – has made a near £84m loss due to the cost of managing debt. A supporters group tells Channel 4 News the team will suffer.
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9/11 Koran book burning condemned
As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton calls the plans by a radical pastor to burn copies of the Koran a “disgraceful act”, Channel 4 News asks whether anti-Muslim sentiment is echoed across America.
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Hawking: ‘God did not create the universe’
God did not create the universe according to Professor Stephen Hawking. The scientist, who has previously failed to rule out the role of a creator, says the laws of physics were behind the Big Bang.
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Obama defends Ground Zero mosque plan
US President Barack Obama defends the right of Muslims to build a mosque near Ground Zero, in New York, despite local opposition and a vocal campaign by families of 9/11 victims to block the project.
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One small step for Iran's nuclear odyssey
Lindsey Hilsum looks at President Ahmadinejad’s apparent change of strategy about allowing Iranian uranium to be enriched elsewhere
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Gary Gibbon
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Baby P’s mother also abused as a child
Channel 4 News has discovered that the mother of Baby Peter, Tracey Connelly, was also on the child protection register when she was 11-years-old. Keme Nzerem reports.
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Gary Gibbon
10p tax vote: rebellion seems to be slipping away
There were thunder claps and lightning directly over Westminster as Frank Field was on his feet in the chamber warning of the Labour Party meeting its executioner in May 2010. Mr Field sounded like a man whose rebellion was slipping away from him and he blamed the government for threatening backbenchers that a defeat on…
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Jon Snow
Standing on Abraham Lincoln's shoulders
We are but 24 hours from America’s first black president and what feels here much more the world’s first black president – although, of course, he isn’t. Vast numbers of foreigners have come in, including, as I’ve mentioned, no small band of Britons. A voice called out to me yesterday on the street amidst thousands…
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Jon Snow
On a rainbow flight to the Obama inauguration
I am in Washington DC amid the build-up to Barack Obama’s inauguration as the 44th president of the United States. The excitement on the plane over was palpable – this was Flight Obama if there was one. Flights to Washington are normally prosaic affairs: businessmen, lobbyists, diplomatic families. But this one was a veritable rainbow…
