In DR Congo with Angelina Jolie
She enlisted William Hague in the global campaign against warzone rape, and empowered women facing breast cancer. Cathy Newman explains why she chose Angelina Jolie as her person of the year.
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A car bomb rips through the business district in the center of the Lebanese capital Beirut on Friday, killing a prominent pro-western politician and four others.
She enlisted William Hague in the global campaign against warzone rape, and empowered women facing breast cancer. Cathy Newman explains why she chose Angelina Jolie as her person of the year.
We twerked, we worked (zero hours), we fought the trolls and we tried to pay for our lunch in bitcoins. Channel 4 News takes a look at the people, words and events which shaped 2013.
Russia announces that former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat died of natural causes, not radiation poisoning – but the Palestinian ambassador to Moscow says an investigation will continue.
South Sudan’s government says its military have recaptured the key town of Bor, days after it was seized by rebels.
As many as 500 people are said to have been killed in Juba, the capital of South Sudan, the world’s youngest country, after three days of fighting between rival factions within the presidential guard.
The family of a British surgeon who died after more than a year in detention in Syria have accused the Foreign Office of not doing enough to secure his release.
A British surgeon who was imprisoned for a year by Syrian security forces while helping casualties of war is found dead in a prison cell.
UN chemical weapons experts confirm that the nerve gas sarin was “definitely” used in Damascus, in up to five places. Soldiers and civilians died but the report stops short of blaming any side.
China has been staring at David Cameron’s request to come on a visit to Beijing for a long time now. It ruled out a trip last autumn. It dumped on the idea of last spring.
“If a mortar falls, it only affects us for an hour or so. After that, things go back to normal. The next day it’s as if nothing happened.”
Is the latest “crackdown” on Romanian and Bulgarian immigrants claiming benefits in the UK all it’s cracked up to be? FactCheck finds out.
Eight million Syrians have been forced from their homes, says the UN, but the regime is refusing aid access to rebel-held suburbs surrounding the capital.
David Cameron’s plans to make it harder to stop new arrivals from the EU getting out-of-work benefits for three months in a bid crack down on immigration have been criticised by a top EU official.
As they drove off, down another street littered with rubble and glass, I wondered how any Syrians, whatever their religion or political allegiance, would ever be able to live a normal life again.