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Magic numbers – free expansion of childcare
This expansion of the welfare state spends more on the better off than the poorest. There are relatively few parents who spend at or close to £10,000 a year on childcare.
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Barclays announces it is cutting 7,000 jobs from its investment bank – on top of the 12,000 announced earlier this year – as part of a new strategic review.
BA’s planes will run on biofuel recycled from London rubbish. It comes as innovation in the aviation industry sees aircraft getting greener, faster and downright weirder than ever.
This expansion of the welfare state spends more on the better off than the poorest. There are relatively few parents who spend at or close to £10,000 a year on childcare.
The Twenty20 World Cup starts in Bangladesh today, and England officially start an international tournament without their mercurial genius, Kevin Pietersen. How will they fare?
Niger extradites Muammar Gaddafi’s son Saadi to Tripoli, where the Libyan government say he is now in custody.
Kareem Khan’s brother and son were killed in a Pakistan drone strike in 2009. Now he is in the UK to meet MPs and tells Channel 4 News “most drone strikes are killing innocent people”.
“Dangerous signs of separatism” are emerging in some regions of Ukraine, the country’s interim president says as he prepares to meet law enforcement agencies.
The horrific brutality of life in North Korea is laid bare in a UN report, which describes how the state maintains a climate of fear through executions, enforced disappearances and starvation.
They have not spoken for years. Yet tonight London Mayor Boris Johnson accused RMT boss Bob Crow of “holding a gun” to the capital’s head as both sides failed to avert a London Underground strike.
Human rights lawyers call for the International Criminal Court to investigate thousands of allegations of abuse by British forces in Iraq.
As part of our look back at how ITN’s coverage of Christmases past, we see how reporter Michael Nicholson was sent to try a new detox diet that left him feeling quite “overwhelmed”.
A deal making global trade easier has been agreed by the World Trade Organisation after 12 years. But opinions differ about how much impact it will actually have.
Barclays is cooperating with regulators reviewing alleged manipulation of currency rates as it reports profits from its investment banking arm fell by half in the third quarter.
Four people are dead after high winds caused chaos in southern England and Wales. Elsewhere 200,000 homes are without power and travel is in chaos as the St Jude storm sweeps across to the continent.
Think big – act local. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is in London with a challenge to cities across Europe: come up with bold new ideas to solve the world’s major problems.