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Have new government tax rules made any difference at all?
Introduced after the Google, Facebook and Starbucks tax scandals, new tax rules are doing very little to curb similar legal tax avoidance, it is claimed. Is public disquiet having more influence?
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Ottawa shooting: gunman killed after shooting soldier dead
A gunman is shot down inside Canada’s parliament building after fatally shooting a soldier guarding the National War Memorial. The city remains under lockdown as police check for more assailants.
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IDS: ‘We spend more on disabled than most countries’
Why should disabled people feel hard done by? Welfare Secretary Iain Duncan Smith says the UK probably spends more on the disabled and sick “than almost any other country in the developed world”.
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Man fakes coma for two years – and other great deceivers
A conman has faked being in a coma for more than two years to avoid punishment for defrauding his elderly neighbour. Channel 4 News looks at others who have gone to great lengths to deceive people.
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Oscar Pistorius sentenced – latest updates
Oscar Pistorius is sentenced to five years in prison for the culpable homicide (manslaughter) of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
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Pistorius gets five years – but may serve less than one
Oscar Pistorius is given five years in prison in a sentence the judge hoped was “fair and just both to society and the accused”. But legal experts say he may serve just 10 or 20 months in jail.
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Ebola apocalypse – and how US ‘preppers’ plan to survive
In Monrovia they get their Ebola information from makeshift chalkboards. In the US, survivalists are all over the internet, advising readers how to live through the forthcoming apocalypse.
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Hong Kong authorities investigate protester beating
Six Hong Kong police officers are removed from their current duties after footage is broadcast showing them beating and kicking a handcuffed pro-democracy protester.
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Inside a book therapy session: a novel cure?
As Richard Flanagan wins the Booker prize, there is a growing belief reading is about more than just entertainment and escapism. Channel 4 News eavesdrops on a “bibliotherapy” session.
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Tony Blair ‘possible target of terror attack’
Former prime minister Tony Blair and his wife Cherie may have been the targets of a terror attack by a British man, the Old Bailey is told.
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Death and corruption in Peru’s Amazonian rainforest
Edwin Chota was one of four friends who died trying to protect the land in one remote area of Peru from illegal loggers. Now his people also fear for their lives.
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What is the Snappening – and will it really ‘snappen’?
Hackers claim they will leak up to 200,000 Snapchat photos in an online database on Sunday night. But what is the ‘Snappening’, how did it happen – and will it actually take place?
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What next for Scotland’s Yes voters?
They became the symbol of the yes campaign’s defeat, photographed in a deserted George Square the morning after the referendum. What happened next to Eva and Nina?
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Exploitation or proud tradition? Britain’s child soldiers
Campaigners launch a new attack on the army’s policy of recruiting children as young as 16. But veterans says it is a time-honoured way of offering troubled teenagers a better life. Who’s right?
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British man ‘dies from Ebola’ in Macedonia
A British man suspected of contracting Ebola has died in Macedonia as Downing Street announces “enhanced screening” at Heathrow and Gatwick airports and Eurostar train terminals.