Apple: a history in three bites
Apple has thrived by turning existing products into beautiful machines, then monetising them over their lifetime. But with no genuinely new product in the pipeline, has it lost its creative drive?
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Apple has thrived by turning existing products into beautiful machines, then monetising them over their lifetime. But with no genuinely new product in the pipeline, has it lost its creative drive?
As Apple celebrates the 30th anniversary of the launch of the Macintosh computer, Channel 4 News asked Paul Marc Davis of Macsmith to explain why it was such a significant moment in cultural history.
As violent scenes play out on the streets of Kiev, we look at the major role extremist right-wing movements have played in Ukraine’s “pro-democracy” movement.
The EU flag may hang listlessly outside buildings in Europe. But anti-government protesters in Ukraine carry it to the frontline like a medieval standard.
European Olympic committees, including the British Olympic Association, receive threats of terrorist attacks in the run-up to the Winter Games in Russia.
The crisis in Kiev has turned uglier. The revolution has bedded in for the long winter. It will test Europe’s resolve and diplomatic touch – but will Brussels be up to the challenge?
Journalists make poor prophets, but January is the month when we all think about the year ahead, and the big picture.
The resort is the playground of Russia’s elite, and in February hosts the Winter Olympics. But Sochi sits on one of the global flashpoints for Islamist terror. Who threatens the games – and why?
Five Britons arrested in Russia as part of the Greenpeace “Arctic 30” group arrive back in Britain after being granted an amnesty.
Pussy Riot members Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, recently freed from jail in Russia, tell a press conference their punk protest in a Moscow cathedral is “not too important any more”.
Paul Mason profiles the mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing, who has been pardoned by the Queen today.
Wartime hero and “father of modern computing” Alan Turing is given a posthumous royal pardon for a 61-year-old conviction for homosexual activity.
Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, members of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot, walk free from jail under an amnesty allowing their early release.
Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky says he intends to stay out of Russian politics and will only return home if certain he can leave again, after being whisked to Germany following a decade in jail.
He may be a talented politician, but the more vindictive Mr Erdogan becomes in response to ongoing corruption allegations, the weaker he may begin to look.