Liam Dutton
A sunny and warm weekend ahead
With the weekend fast approaching, I thought that I would take a look at the weather prospects for the coming weekend.
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A brief history of GM
Once it was Frankenstein food, now it’s the fight against disease. Channel 4 News looks at the brief but controversial story of genetic modification – from tomatoes to mosquitoes.
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Liam Dutton
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How Gaddafi's legacy beyond the grave led to coup in Mali
The demise of Colonel Gaddafi was a stone cast into a pool – a huge wave rather than a ripple has hit Libya’s neighbour, Mali.
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Liam Dutton
Another week lacking rainfall
The weekend provided a real mix of weather across the UK, with rain or showers bringing some welcome moisture into the ground across England and Wales.
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Liam Dutton
Winter 2011/12 – the final verdict
The Met Office have just released the winter season statistics that includes the months of December, January and February, so I thought I’d take a quick look at them and summarise the main points.
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Liam Dutton
Another dry spell on the way for the UK
Despite a promising start to March, with the first week of the month bringing rain to all parts of the UK, the next week or so is looking largely dry – not welcome news for the areas suffering from drought.
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Liam Dutton
Welcome rainfall in the right places
During the past 24 hours a band of heavy and persistent rain has spread across much of England and Wales, bringing welcome and much needed rainfall.
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Liam Dutton
Spring-like warmth to return next week
After yesterday’s remarkable warmth for February, with many parts of England and north east Wales reaching 15-18C, this weekend will be a little bit cooler.
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Al-Shabaab: ‘Your peace depends on us being left alone’
As a major conference on Somalia opens in London, reporter Jamal Osman went to Somalia to speak to the Islamist group that will not be attending the summit, despite controlling most of the country.
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Liam Dutton
A taste of spring this week
After a temporary return to colder weather during the weekend, the mild weather is set to make a return for the week ahead.
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Alex Thomson
Britain’s idea of snow is ‘frankly hilarious’
Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson blogs on the relentless snow hitting Kabul and why Britain’s idea of winter is “frankly hilarious”.
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Alex Thomson
The extremes of an Afghan winter
Arriving in Kabul’s homely – if beaten-up – airport after Dubai is always something of a contrast. Never more so in my experience than this morning. The Hindu Kush mountains brilliant in deep mid-winter snows. But not just the Kush. The Afghan capital gleams under a foot or so and this morning’s temperature dipped to minus 12.
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The extremes of an Afghan winter
Arriving in Kabul’s homely – if beaten-up – airport after Dubai is always something of a contrast. Never more so in my experience than this morning. The Hindu Kush mountains brilliant in deep mid-winter snows. But not just the Kush. The Afghan capital gleams under a foot or so and this morning’s temperature dipped to minus 12.
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Aid delay caused thousands of deaths
Failure to heed early warning signs of drought led to tens of thousands of deaths in East Africa, says a report by Oxfam and Save the Children.
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Life on the edge for Dadaab’s refugees
Life in the world’s biggest refugee camp, at Dadaab, Kenya, means subsisting on the bare essentials. But people still try to live as normally as they can, writes the World Food Programme’s Steve Ryan.
