Big wave hunters head to Ireland for the stormy weather
“Everyone around Europe is loving it. Although it’s tricky for the people affected by the storm, big swells mean happy surfers.”
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Exclusive: a recording of the voice of Guy Burgess – the most colourful and notorious of the cold war spies – has come to light thanks to a freedom of information request to the FBI.
Revealing photographs by some of the 20th century’s most influential culture icons show unseen sides to Andy Warhol, William Burroughs and David Lynch.
The prosecution case moved onto allegations of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice as the jury returned for the new year. Here are five details that came to light in the first week back.
“Everyone around Europe is loving it. Although it’s tricky for the people affected by the storm, big swells mean happy surfers.”
It is the worst refugee crisis since WWII – yet Britain has refused to join most other EU countries in being part of a UN resettlement programme for Syria’s 2.5 million displaced people.
As tributes pour in for Phil Everly, who produced some of the biggest hits of the 1950s and early 1960s with his brother Don, Channel 4 News looks back at some of their best-loved hits.
The sight of a British prime minister calculating ferry numbers, lorry numbers and tonnages to defeat a strike will certainly surprise anybody who took at face value Mrs Thatcher’s claim to be simply a bystander.
The AK-47 rifle, the brainchild of Mikhail Kalashnikov who died yesterday, was first used by Soviet Russia to suppress rebellious east European states, but soon became the freedom fighter’s creed.
Wartime hero and “father of modern computing” Alan Turing is given a posthumous royal pardon for a 61-year-old conviction for homosexual activity.
Fashions may change, but some things stay exactly the same. Shoppers 40 years ago were just as hungry for bargains as we are today – although maybe a little more polite than we’re used to.
He may be a talented politician, but the more vindictive Mr Erdogan becomes in response to ongoing corruption allegations, the weaker he may begin to look.
The goal of finding a cure for dementia with 12 years is “within our grasp” the prime minister tells an international summit, as he announces that funding for dementia research in the UK is to double.
With the world’s leaders looking on, it was a chance for South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma to shine. So why did some of his countrymen choose to publicly humiliate him?
I have arrived in Glasgow for tomorrow morning’s big launch of the white paper on independence – the document Alex Salmond hopes will be seen as the definitive text on the subject.
Faced with the Vietnam war and revelations of his serial philandering, the young, dashing JFK may well have ended his tenancy at the White House in failure and disgrace.