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Investigators are questioning 11 secret service agents accused of cavorting with prostitutes ahead of President Obama’s visit to Columbia. Could their behaviour have put US security at risk?
Spanish oil giant Repsol has demanded $10bn in compensation from Argentina if it goes ahead with plans to nationalise YPF.
Channel 4 News announces that Tom Clarke is to become the programme’s first ever Science Editor.
Channel 4 News Science Correspondent Tom Clarke meets the world’s largest community with inherited Alzheimer’s. The group, in a remote Colombian village, is at the centre of groundbreaking research.
Matt Frei
As the United States employs diplomatic “procedure” to ensure fellow members of the UN Security Council do not vote for Palestinian statehood, Channel 4 News US Correspondent Matt Frei concludes that diplomacy is letting someone else have YOUR way.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas asks the United Nations to recognise a state for his people.
Jon Snow
“Are our interests really being served by the growth of what look perilously close to highly trained mercenary forces? What measures are being taken by the UN and the international community to regulate these things?”
BP reports its first annual loss in nearly 20 years after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. But as Siobhan Kennedy reports, the disaster has not stopped BP renewing its focus on deep sea exploration.
It did not require complex climatic modelling to predict the “super storm” which unleashed Queensland’s inland killer-tsunami. Meteorologists and oceanographers did, to some degree, see it coming, warning that after weeks of waterlogging, further deluge could spell disaster.
Brisbane police urge evacuation as the city faces major flooding. Ten people have already been killed and a Queensland resident tells Channel 4 News whole houses are being swept away.
A fireman who helped rescue survivors of the London bombings is jailed for his role in a £100m cocaine and money laundering network. Simon Israel recalls the night police smashed the drug ring.
Notorious suspected arms dealer Viktor Bout, known as the Merchant of Death, is extradited to the US from Thailand.
Alleged notorious arms dealer Viktor Bout is one step closer to being extradited from Thailand to the US, writes Nick Paton Walsh, as his sense invincibility finally fades.
Suspected arms dealer Viktor Bout, known as the Merchant of Death, moves a step closer to being extradited to the US after a prolonged trial, writes Asia Correspondent Nick Paton Walsh.
It was actually, really, quite a surprise. After all the wrangling, the endless conspiracy theories, and the melodrama, it seems like Viktor Bout – the man who’s been dubbed the world’s biggest arms dealer, the Merchant of Death – is going America to face trial. It’s been two and a half years since Viktor Bout…