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David Beckham, Bill Gates and Danny Boyle are set to address a rally against global hunger in London’s Hyde Park ahead of the G8 summit.
Donors including Bill Gates agree to give billions to vaccine programmes in the developing world, with Britain pledging nearly a third of the total. Tom Clarke looks at the lives that could be saved.
The StandUpX website makes a number of claims which are highly debatable or straightforwardly untrue.
Jon Snow
London’s elevated six lane Westway races past Grenfell, and in the hundreds of times I had driven past in both directions, I had never given it a thought. A bland landmark. Never wondered who lived there, nor with what this tall building was clad.
Four months after the Grenfell Tower disaster, all five members of one family – both parents and three children – were laid to rest today following funeral prayers at East London Mosque. Among them, an amazing 12-year-old girl named Firdaws Hashim, who weeks earlier in the year had won a celebrated schools debating competition. Bill…
Jon Snow
Award-winning Channel 4 News journalist and presenter Jon Snow delivers the prestigious James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture at Edinburgh International Television Festival.
The Grenfell tragedy is on a scale not seen for decades in the United Kingdom. It has exposed acute divisions in society, dangerous weaknesses in social housing, planning, and fire regulations, and a gaping lack of trust between some of the most vulnerable and the authorities charged with looking after them.
The re-release of Blade Runner, with its humanoid replicants and Pac-Man computer screens, offers a warning about the hazards of future-gazing.
Ex Machina was meant to be a thrilling expose of the dangers of artificial intelligence – in fact the film simply revealed how limited our conceptions of AI really are.
There are many on my Twitter stream who find it grotesque that the supposed “masters of the universe” who failed to create a safe financial world order are still on top.
As the great and the good meet in Davos, Switzerland this week, Channel 4 News takes a graphic look at how life at the top compares with life on the ground at Davos Drive, Staffordshire.
Parties, flowers, prayers – tributes pour in for Nelson Mandela from across the world as South Africa begins a day of remembrance for Madiba.
Britain pledges £375 million to help feed millions of the world’s poorest children, as part of a global agreement to tackle malnutrition.
An exclusive investigation by Channel 4 News gains unprecedented access to underground networks which help families flee from social services in the UK.
Matt Frei
Even Marc Zuckerberg knows that his journey from Harvard dorm to global domination in less than a decade is based on the fickleness of “friends”.