The rising spectre of tuberculosis across Russia
Cases of drug resistant tuberculosis are on the rise in Russia. So why has Putin’s government banished one of the country’s biggest funders of TB programmes?
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Half a century after Britain’s infamous Great Train Robbery, labelled the “crime of the century”, Channel 4 News Picture Researcher Ian Searcey delves into the ITN archives to find the news report.
Cases of drug resistant tuberculosis are on the rise in Russia. So why has Putin’s government banished one of the country’s biggest funders of TB programmes?
Britain’s spies receive £100m for sharing information with America’s NSA. We look at how a cold war agreement plus the advent of the web has accelerated the possibilities for spying.
The scene of campaigners fighting off the siting of US nuclear missiles on their doorstep, Greenham Common is now up for sale – but did its controversial use worry Mrs Thatcher?
As a speech from 1983, prepared for the Queen in case of nuclear war, is released – Channel 4 News looks at the size of atomic arsenals now.
For long periods of this Coalition, the chancellor was a bit of a recluse – the Greta Garbo of Tory politics. His finger was in every political pie but he didn’t seek out cameras. What’s changed?
A new papal decree states that believers who follow this month’s Rio World Youth Day online could be entitled to an “indulgence”, a medieval spiritual incentive that reduces your time in purgatory.
The 2013 Open golf championship at Muirfield is causing more controversy than most. In an age of equality, Channel 4 News asks why it is still legal to ban women from joining a golf club.
Ed Miliband calls for an “historic” shake-up in Labour’s relationship with the trade unions. What is he hoping to achieve and where does the public stand?
Britons dramatically overestimate the amount of teenage pregnancy, crime and benefit fraud in the UK. A new report by Ipsos Mori checks the perceptions against the truth.
Singer Bernie Nolan dies after losing her battle with cancer, aged 52. The star, who was born into a showbusiness family, sang alongside her sisters Coleen, Anne and Maureen.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission begins assessing documents regarding allegations that a former chief constable may have tried to discredit a key witness to the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry.
In Prime Minister’s Questions today David Cameron and Ed Miliband sparred over cramped primary school places. FactCheck looks at who’s to blame.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt outlines plans to tackle “health tourism” by introducing a levy on foreigners who come to the UK for more than half a year to access NHS treatment.
As the Tour de France prepares for its 100th race, Channel 4 News Picture Researcher Ian Searcey delves into the archive to reveal how ITN broadcast the race fifty years ago to a bemused Britain.