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Almost 100,000 people have died as a result of Syria’s two year conflict. Why did it take the suspicion of chemical gas for the west to consider intervention? Channel 4 News reports.
The suspected use of chemical weapons in Damascus may be an international turning point but, as Channel 4 News examines, it is not the first time such attacks have been alleged in Syria’s civil war.
MPs and Amnesty International raise concerns over the UK’s approval of export licences for the sale of arms, worth over £12bn, to countries with questionable human rights records, including Sri Lanka.
Jon Snow
Sixty-eight years ago today America detonated the world’s first nuclear bomb at its Trinity testing site in New Mexico. Today the most intriguing aspect of the nuclear debate is that it is so low-key.
Damascus is the chemical weapons capital of Syria, with vast and often secret research, production and storage facilities littered across the city. Click around this interactive guide.
Malaysians vote in record numbers in an election that could weaken or even end the rule of the world’s longest-ruling coalition. Asia Correspondent John Sparks gives his view.
Spare a thought for the Clangers, of 1970s children’s TV fame, who could now find their home overrun by tourists after a US company announced it would be offering commercial flights to the moon.
To the outside world relations between the USA and Pakistan appear strained, but Anwar Akhtar argues that America is not as unpopular on the streets of Karachi and Lahore as the west might think.
Superfast 4G products and services are being made available to millions of mobile phone users in 11 cities across the UK, amid criticism about the cost of pricing plans for the new service.
Muammar Gaddafi could have an underground escape route from his military compound to Tripoli International Airport, an engineer who worked on plans to renovate its infrastructure told Channel 4 News.
As refugees flee the Syrian town of Jisr al-Shughour in the face of a concerted military assault, defence analyst Anthony Tucker-Jones writes that the army holds the country’s future in its hands.
Writing for Channel 4 News as the UK death toll reached 300, former British commander Colonel Richard Kemp said the UK could not afford to leave the country until its objectives are achieved.
Samira Ahmed reports for Channel 4 News on her home constituency of Richmond Park, south west London, where the campaign has centred on a certain non-dom Tory candidate.