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A desktop C-section in the wreckage of Haiyan
A doctor carries out a Caesarian section in the wreckage of Haiyan. But with supplies running low, how long can they hold out?
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A major earthquake with a magnitude of 8.2 kills six people in Chile, triggering a tsunami wave and tremors which were felt as far as Bolivia and Peru.
Around 100 tonnes of highly radioactive water leaks from a tank in Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant, in the worst incident of its kind since August 2013.
As the prime minister insists that he has a strong moral case for welfare reform, campaigners warn that, in an already unequal society, the changes are falling unfairly on the poorest.
Parts of Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, which was devastated by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, are still too dangerous for humans to enter. But not, perhaps, for drones.
It was seen as the riskiest operation at Japan’s stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant since the March 2011 tsunami – but the plant’s operator says the first fuel removals have begun safely.
A doctor carries out a Caesarian section in the wreckage of Haiyan. But with supplies running low, how long can they hold out?
As Tepco opens up to the world about a dangerous operation coming up at the stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, we speak to a former worker who says his legs shook as he did his work.
There are 4.3 million people needing urgent aid and an estimated 800,000 displaced. How can the aid effort begin to help – and what can the average person do? Channel 4 News speaks to the experts.
President Benigno Aquino declares a state of national calamity, as rescue workers in the Philippines struggle to reach remote towns and villages to provide aid to more than 600,000 people.
At least 10,000 people have been killed in the central Philippines, with estimates expected to leap once remote regions are reached, following one of the most powerful storms ever recorded.
The Red Cross is estimating that at least 1,200 people are dead as rescuers struggle to reach the areas devastated by Typhoon Haiyan in the central Philippines.
British architect Garry Thomas visited Iwaki, near the damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, recently. He found a place barely reconstructed, and residents losing hope.
Japan’s emergency agencies declare a tsunami warning as the US Geological Survery reports a magnitude 7.3 earthquake off Japan’s east coast.
Typhoon Wipha brushed along the southern side of Japan on Wednesday, causing mudslides and flooding that left 17 people dead and 50 missing.
The headlines are alarming: vast leaks of radioactive water, international experts being drafted in and spikes in radiation levels. But how bad is the situation at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant?