HIV breakthrough greeted with excitement and caution
At last year’s International Aids Conference there was talk of finding a cure for HIV – just six months later it feels as if it might actually happen, writes Victoria Macdonald.
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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving Boston bombing suspect, is charged in connection with the attacks. The White House says he will not be tried as an enemy combatant.
A night of chaos and terror on the outskirts of Boston. Gunfire, explosions, a police chase: one suspect dead, another, armed – still at large. But how did the authorities track them down?
A functioning kidney created by scientists in a US laboratory could offer huge promise in the field of regenerative medicine, writes Science Reporter Asha Tanna.
We’ve been raging against the machine since 2009, but is “chartjacking” really an act of political defiance? Channel 4 News takes a look at the hit parade.
As Northern Ireland prepares to host this year’s G8 summit, the fragile peace is being tested by militant republican groups competing to outdo each other and take their war to the security services.
Birmingham’s gang war made headlines when Charlene Ellis and Latisha Shakespeare were killed in a drive-by shooting. A new film, One Mile Away, looks at efforts to end the gang feuding in the city.
At last year’s International Aids Conference there was talk of finding a cure for HIV – just six months later it feels as if it might actually happen, writes Victoria Macdonald.
In a dramatic conclusion to a four-day bail hearing, Oscar Pistorius is granted bail to await trial for the murder of his girlfriend. But women’s campaigners criticise “cheers” in court.
Australian authorities uncover widespread drug use by elite athletes and links to organised crime in what has been called the “blackest day” for a country that prides itself on its sporting prowess.
The report into the Mid Staffordshire care scandal says hundreds of patients were exposed to risk because of systemic failings “at every level”, but stops short of laying blame at individuals.
The war in Mali has been characterised as a simple battle between Islamic fundamentalists and French forces lending support to the Malian army and government, but the reality is a little more complex.
Police are warning that a batch of contaminated ecstasy tablets could be circulating in the Wigan area, following the deaths of two young men from the same town.
Khat, a stimulant drug, is chewed by around 90,000 people in the east African and Yemeni communities in the UK. But now the Home Office is considering banning the substance. Jamal Osman finds out why.
A minister tells MPs that the government “strongly” objects to the death penalty given to grandmother Lindsay Sandiford in Indonesia for drug trafficking.
As it emerges that disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong is to take to the sofa on Oprah Winfrey’s TV show, Channel 4 News asks what does a celebrity gain from a very public confession?