Dr Jon Snow returns from Liverpool University
More than 40 years after he was sent down from Liverpool University for organising an anti-apartheid protest, Channel 4 News presenter Jon Snow returns to pick up an honorary Doctor of Laws degree.
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One of the boys wounded in Friday’s polar bear attack that killed a 17-year-old boy had to have parts of the bear’s teeth removed from his skull, it has been revealed.
As tributes pour in for Eton schoolboy Horatio Chapple, who died in a polar bear attack in Norway, his two friends and two expedition leaders undergo surgery and recover in hospital.
A polar bear has killed a British teenager and injured four others in a remote area of Norway. Horatio Chapple was in a group of students on a British Schools Exploring Society expedition.
The 17-year-old boy killed by a polar bear in Norway has been named as Horatio Chapple, as questions are raised over the anti-polar bear trip wires placed around the camp.
Last-gasp negotiations to stave off an economic disaster in the United States are continuing, with the Senate Democratic leader says he is “cautiously optimistic”.
Efforts on Capitol Hill to find a deal to allow the US to raise its $14.3tr debt limit failed last night when the Democrat-led Senate rejected a Republican bill passed by the House of Representatives.
With just days to go before the deadline to resolve the US debt crisis, President Barack Obama has warned that Congress is “running out of time” on reaching an agreement to avoid default.
The Republican plan for US debt is in crisis after House leaders cancelled a vote on a bill to extend the government’s debt limit and cut spending to avoid a US default on its debt.
As bickering over the US debt ceiling continues on Capitol Hill, Channel 4 News US politics expert Felicity Spector reveals more than two-thirds of Americans just want to see a deal – any deal.
Crucial talks on US debt have collapsed again. America will run out of money on 2 August, if its debt ceiling is not raised, causing a potentially catastrophic default.
Taller people are more likely to get cancer, experts have found. But they are unsure why this is the case, and say tall people should not be alarmed by the results.
More than 40 years after he was sent down from Liverpool University for organising an anti-apartheid protest, Channel 4 News presenter Jon Snow returns to pick up an honorary Doctor of Laws degree.
As Nelson Mandela celebrates his 93rd birthday, South Africans are being urged to do 67 minutes of voluntary work to mark the 67 years Mandela spent fighting apartheid.
The former head of Westminster’s sleaze watchdog enters the phone-hacking fray nine years after she accused MPs of hounding her out of office.
The founding members of the pop group Bucks Fizz are in a legal battle over the right to use the band’s name.