Hull city council considering bitcoin-like currency
Hull’s decision to launch its own cyber-currency, called Hullcoins, may sound like an April fool’s joke, but it shows the kind of traction virtual currencies are gaining in the real world.
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It’s red and white, it’s not the flag Switzerland and every few years it triggers a debate about xenophobia. Yes – it’s the cross of St George. Football writer and commentator John Anderson waves his.
David Cameron pledges to “take more steps” to speed up the deportation of people who pose a threat to Britain following the US conviction of Abu Hamza on terror charges.
Protests targeting the government following the Soma coal mine disaster are violently suppressed – but will Prime Minister Recep Erdogan once again ride out public anger?
At least 245 people are killed and 80 injured in a mining accident. As rescue efforts continue, the Turkish government is facing protests over its failure to improve mine safety.
As rescue efforts continue, experts tell Channel 4 News more disasters on this scale are inevitable unless ships get much safer.
Former US Army interpreter Hekmatullah Wahidi learns this week if he can appeal his deportation from the UK. But if he returns to his native Afghanistan, he is “certain” the Taliban will kill him.
“Sir Isaac Newton would be turning in his grave”: physicists are appalled at the gravity of equation errors in the government’s new GCSE combined science syllabus.
The amount of money paid to support asylum seekers could be reviewed after the Home Secretary Theresa May lost a high court battle.
The British man accused of plotting his wife’s murder while on honeymoon in South Africa will fly there tonight after losing a three-year legal battle to stay in Britain. What happens now?
The latest shooting incident at Fort Hood in Texas mirrors an attack in 2009 which was the deadliest inside a US military base in history. So are returning soldiers being given effective treatment?
Hull’s decision to launch its own cyber-currency, called Hullcoins, may sound like an April fool’s joke, but it shows the kind of traction virtual currencies are gaining in the real world.
A murder investigation is launched after a British sailor is found dead on a burned-out life raft. His yacht was destroyed by fire off the coast of the Caribbean island, St Vincent.
Investigators searching for Malaysia Airline’s flight MH370 say they have “no corroboration yet” that two objects spotted in the Indian Ocean have come from the missing plane.
There are “indications” that Russia may be planning a military intervention in the south and east of Ukraine, Kiev’s ambassador to the United Nations warns.
The Conservatives have been hit with a Twitter “takedown” after a “patronising” advert on how the Budget 2014’s beer and bingo cuts help “hardworking people”.