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Jack Klugman, the craggy-faced character actor best known for playing the coroner on the television show Quincy ME, and the messy sports writer in The Odd Couple, dies aged 90.
Actor Larry Hagman, who for more than a decade played the villainous patriarch JR Ewing in the TV soap Dallas, dies at the age of 81.
Think a rugby league pitch is the last place where men would talk about feelings? Think again – a mental health campaign has taken root in the sport and could be a template for raising awareness.
Jon Snow
The UK positions itself between Europe and the US, but an Italian journalist warns that the British should prepare for the possibility that its neighbours may emerge from the eurozone crisis stronger.
As John Terry hangs up his international football boots, writer and commentator John Anderson says England are losing a player who could be relied upon when the heat was on.
Scientists say a grant to develop genetically modified crops could revolutionise farming in the developing world.
Paul Krugman’s new book challenges the consensus view of deficit cutting. Channel 4 News’s Neil Macdonald looks at the economist’s call for a return to the ideas of John Maynard Keynes.
Hundreds of anti-GM protesters are demonstrating close to the site of an experimental crop of modified wheat in a Hertfordshire field.
As GM chooses Ellesmere Port for the production of the new Astra, Channel 4 News looks at the differences between British and German workers’ rights and pay to find out why Britain closed the deal.
The question now is will al-Qaeda, with its new North African leadership, be able to capitalise on the politcal instability which follows revolution?
Scientists at a leading agricultural research institute send an open letter to anti-GM protesters pleading with them not to destroy “years of work”.
Once it was Frankenstein food, now it’s the fight against disease. Channel 4 News looks at the brief but controversial story of genetic modification – from tomatoes to mosquitoes.
A UK company has developed a strain of genetically modified mosquito that could drastically reduce diseases like dengue fever. But are Florida’s residents prepared to trial the GM insect in Key West?
At the centre of an intense personality cult, the North Korean leader inspired a myriad of legends and parodies. Channel 4 News looks at the more bizarre side of the Kim Jong-il legacy.
As the Foreign Secretary, William Hague, offers the prospect of Colonel Gaddafi being allowed to stay in Libya if he steps down as leader, Anthony Tucker-Jones reports on the shifting political sands.