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Jon Snow
The killing in Pakistan of the Governor of Punjab by his own bodyguard on Tuesday, marks a devastating new high water mark both inside and outside that country, blogs Jon Snow.
Governor Salman Taseer has been given a state funeral in Pakistan after he was shot dead by one of his bodyguards yesterday sparking safety fears for other liberal politicians.
Dense cloud cover disappointed most British sky-gazers hoping to catch a glimpse of a partial solar eclipse today. Other countries enjoyed a stunning view of the rare event.
International Editor Lindsey Hilsum looks ahead at the key events that could shape world affairs in 2011.
Many people in Iraq tell Lindsey Hilsum that there is no future for Christianity in the country – meaning an ancient civilisation could be wiped out.
Shahla Jahed has been executed this morning in Iran after being convicted of murdering a former football star’s wife.
A former British ambassador tells Channel 4 News that the west would be better to accept a nuclear Iran than bomb it. Sir Richard Dalton says Tehran will seek to claim the moral high ground.
An Iranian scientist who was killed in a bomb explosion in Tehran today was on an Iranian UNESCO team, Channel 4 News has learned.
Whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks has released 250,000 US classified documents, including documents showing that Arab leaders are privately urging for an airstrike on Iran.
As South Korea bolsters its military forces amid tensions with the North, Chatham House Asia expert Dr John Swenson-Wright looks at the risky strategies ahead if a US-backed deterrence fails.
Russia joins a United States and European missile defence shield at the Lisbon summit today – the closest co-operation since the end of the Cold War.
A TV confession by Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, who faces death by stoning in Iran, has been criticised by human rights groups. There is also concern that another one of her lawyers has been arrested.
The fanfare of Prince William and Kate Middleton’s wedding is set to create a “bumper couple of years” for the economy alongside the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and London 2012, Channel 4 News finds.
The freed Somali hostages Paul and Rachel Chandler are expected to return home from Nairobi “very soon”. Katie Razzall gauges the reaction of the UK Somali community to their kidnapping, and release.
As George W Bush defends the use of “waterboarding” for saving British lives, Channel 4’s Job Rabkin looks at the former US president’s defiance and regrets from his time in office.