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It looks terrible – vandals of the Islamic State attacking ancient Assyrian statues with sledge-hammers.
Jonathan Miller
The new Emir of Kano emerged. He sat high on a magnificently decorated black stallion, his fist punching the hot air, master of all he surveyed. The city had seen nothing like this for half a century.
A community based on love, sharing and respect is rocked by a bitter dispute about how to modernise the care it offers the learning disabled residents who share lives with career volunteers.
Jonathan Rugman
This week sees the opening of a film about codebreaker Alan Turing’s work at Bletchley Park. Would there be room for him in today’s MI6? Former spy chief John Scarlett thinks so.
Extremist group the Islamic State may claim ancient roots, but its barbaric actions and propaganda machine have made it the most searched for and tweeted about terror group on the modern web.
State schools are turning out “amoral” children who don’t have a “moral compass” says a leading independent school head. Is he right? Here’s what Channel 4 News readers had to say about it.
Gary Gibbon
Tonight Ed Miliband will make a speech arguing that the Blairite push for competition, the big market approach continued by the coalition, has reached the end of its productive life.
Paul Mason profiles the mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing, who has been pardoned by the Queen today.
It was a weird feeling, standing there in my suit and tie at the edge of the virtual battle space. Because the asymmetry of power is massively dramatized in this drone ‘cockpit’.
What bright ideas would light up the UK economy for you? George Osborne has set out his plan for economic recovery, but Channel 4 News wanted to find out what people on the street would like to see.
Former Turner prize nominee Shirazeh Houshiar takes Katie Razzall round Tate Modern’s new exhibition of the work of the great 20th century modernist Paul Klee.
A new book by a top military advisor claims modern day warfare is no longer nation states fighting on a foreign battlefield, but small groups of insurgents fighting in the centre of our cities.
His opponents call him the sultan, and say he is intent on transforming Turkey’s secular state into an Islamic fiefdom. But amid widespread protests, which way will Turkey’s prime minister turn?
Wlodzimierz Umaniec is jailed for two years for vandalising a Mark Rothko painting worth over £5m at the Tate Modern, in what the judge called an “utterly unacceptable” attack.
The band behind songs Computer Love and Computer World unwittingly trigger computer meltdown at Tate Modern as Kraftwerk fans in search of tickets crash the website.