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Ash Cloud: ‘the worst is over’ says Icelandic Met Office
After a day of cancellations the Icelandic Met Office say that the ash plume from the Grimsvotn volcano has reduced 75 percent in size and will not seriously affect mainland European airspace.
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Yale student dies in laboratory accident
As a chemistry student at Yale University is killed in a “true tragedy” while working alone in a laboratory at night, Channel 4 News looks at the safety rules for students at UK universities.
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Japan: engineers closer to restoring power at Fukushima
As Japanese engineers appear to make progress controlling the world’s worst nuclear crisis for 25 years, a nuclear expert tells Channel 4 News the plant may need to be encased in concrete.
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Japan live blog: the battle to avoid nuclear meltdown
Latest updates, pictures and video from Japan as earthquake and tsunami recovery efforts are hampered by an escalating nuclear crisis.
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Japan: battle to cool Fukushima as world’s alarm grows
Watch video of the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant, filmed by military helicopters dumping water on it, as a nuclear expert tells Channel 4 News elements of the response are “shambolic”.
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Japan live blog: tsunami and nuclear disaster
A second blast has rocked the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan, which was damaged in Friday’s earthquake and tsunami. Follow all of Monday’s events here in a replay of our live blog.
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Crisis at Fukushima nuclear plant
Japanese authorities say that the Fukushima reactor is still safe and the radiation leak has been low – but the crisis is far from over as the exclusion zone widens around the nuclear plant.
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Why diabetes is big business for drug companies
The numbers of those diagnosed with diabetes will continue to rise but, as Deborah Cohen, Investigations Editor of the BMJ explains, the cost to the NHS does not need to spiral out of control.
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NHS spends tens of millions on expensive diabetes drugs
A joint investigation by Channel 4 News and the BMJ reveals the NHS spends tens of millions more than necessary on modern insulins to treat diabetes despite guidance from NICE to use cheaper products.
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UK snow: temperatures hit record low
Temperatures fell to record lows across the country last night, including -17C in Wales, as heavy snow continues to fall in Scotland, Northern Ireland and the north east of England.
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Unions condemn spending review job losses
George Osborne said it was the day Britain stepped back from the brink. But union leaders tell Channel 4 News the spending review will lead to “wholesale unemployment”.
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Spending review: our correspondents’ verdicts
As Chancellor George Osborne delivers his long-awaited spending review, Channel 4 News correspondents deliver their verdicts on the cuts.
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Terror alert to US citizens abroad in Europe
After a State Department terror warning to US citizens in Europe, the Foreign Office tells Britons abroad there is a “high threat” of attacks in France and Germany.
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Copenhagen: no view from the summit?
After months of hype the Copenhagen climate change summit took place in December 2009 but resulted not in a binding deal between the world’s leaders, but an “accord”.
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Climategate: the emails behind a scientific storm
The Copenhagen summit took place under a cloud of sceptism after leaked emails appeared to show UK scientists exaggerating the threat of climate change.