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A curtain raiser to the greatest show on earth
“From the very outset the crashing power of the opening bars announced something portentous – almost as if inaugurating the Olympics themselves.”
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Channel 4 News’s award-winning Political Editor Gary Gibbon is set to host long-form interviews with leading figures from each party during this year’s party conference season.
The UK’s poorest children are bearing the greatest burden of the recession, research from Save the Children shows.
Chancellor George Osborne knocks back a suggestion from Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg that the country’s wealthiest should be contributing more to the UK’s fiscal turn-around.
Four flames kindled on the highest peaks of the UK come together at Stoke Mandeville, the spiritual home of the Paralympics, before the final torch relay towards east London on Wednesday.
Helen Gurley Brown, who has died aged 90, transformed Cosmopolitan from a domestic suburban publication to a sex tips bible – her impact on feminism and women’s magazines remains a hot topic today.
A UN report alleges direct Rwandan assistance to Bosco Ntaganda’s rebels, setting them up, reinforcing them, arming, supplying and funding them and recruiting for them – all in violation of UN sanctions.
With warnings of inadequate security and traffic chaos, the doomsayers were having a field day in the run-up to London 2012. And then the Games began.
The Co-operative triples its retail banking arm in a takeover of 632 Lloyds branches. But will the £750m deal compromise the bank’s prized ethical credentials? Channel 4 News investigates.
Unemployment falls by 65,000 between March and May to 2.58 million but the number of people claiming jobseeker’s allowance last month increases by 6,100.
Plans for a mixture of loans and guarantees to boost UK infrastructure and exports are unveiled by the government – but will this provide the economic jumpstart the UK needs?
“From the very outset the crashing power of the opening bars announced something portentous – almost as if inaugurating the Olympics themselves.”
It’s exactly eight years since I reported from Nyala on the scorched-earth tactics of Sudan’s president, Omar al-Bashir, writes Jonathan Miller.
Following revelations from Channel 4 News about the failings of welfare-to-work company A4e, further statistics show their poor performance happening in a region where jobs are plentiful.
England exit the Euro 2012 football championship at the quarterfinals stage, losing out to Italy 4-2 on penalties in Kiev after a goalless 120 minutes of open play.
As doctors stage industrial action for the first time in 40 years, Channel 4 News asks if the move has lost them goodwill?