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  • 8 Feb 2012

    One holds the UK economy in his hands. The other’s role is even more important – at least if you ask some people. Channel 4 News checks the Top Trumps cards of Stephen Hester and Fabio Capello.

  • 5 Dec 2011

    The president of the World Diamond Council tells Channel 4 News the Kimberley process means consumers know their diamonds are not from conflict areas – but campaigners disagree as they pull out.

  • 31 Mar 2011

    The army backing the disputed Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo calls on youths to enlist to help fight in the battle against his rival, Alassane Ouattara.

  • 24 Mar 2011

    So goodbye, Liz Taylor, I did not know you well

    Jon reflects on the icon that was always, unapologetically, before our time.

  • 8 Feb 2011

    A British lawyer for former Liberian President Charles Taylor has walked out of a war crimes trial. Courtenay Griffiths told Channel 4 News the judges had shown inflexibility which he found appalling.

  • 31 Jan 2011

    British film composer John Barry, best known for creating music for the James Bond films, dies of a heart attack, aged 77. Culture Editor Matthew Cain pays tribute.

  • 16 Nov 2010

    The wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton could empty the Queen’s reserve funds ahead of her Diamond Jubilee in 2012, Channel 4 News discovers.

  • 29 Oct 2010

    Hope comes from unexpected quarters. For the global diamond industry it comes from Zimbabwe, where massive diamond deposits have been identified in the last few years.

  • 29 Oct 2010

    Channel 4 News has exclusive access to secret filming by Unreported World showing the “blood diamond” industry is still gripping Africa as troops continue to abuse Zimbabwe’s diamond panners.

  • 10 Sep 2010

    Channel 4 News foreign editor Ben De Pear blogs on the involvement of Dr KA Paul in the Koran burning controversy in the United States.

  • 7 Sep 2010

    They used to say diamonds were a girl’s best friend – but these days it is all about shoes. As luxury shoe sales boom, Culture Editor Matthew Cain looks at the surge in popularity.

  • 26 May 2010

    Tweet revenge: Off with her head!

    Hard to believe, but the fact that the perfectly turned out Samantha Cameron was not wearing a hat whilst sitting demurely in the public gallery of the House of Lords represented a major parliamentary moment.

  • 18 Jan 2010

    The cracks in India’s underground coal fires

    A week after returning from Jharia the evidence of my handkerchief was that there was plenty of coal dust still to emerge from my respiratory system. Our team had just returned from a shocking sight, the burning coalfields near India’s coal capital Dhanbad. It was undoubtedly a form of hell.

  • 27 Mar 2009

    Here’s another country on the global recession’s front line: Botswana, hailed as the longest continuous multi-party democracy in Africa. Botswana is classified by some economists as an “upper middle-income” country, but the wealth is very unevenly spread, so – according to DFID – 49 per cent of the population lives on less than $2 a…

  • 23 Mar 2009

    Obscene would be putting it too strongly, but it did seem odd talking about dead African children amid the gilded Louis XIV interiors of Lancaster House last week. One of London’s finest townhouses, just across the road from Buckingham Palace, this is where Rhodesia’s independence from Britain was signed in 1979.