How did the first world war actually end?
I’ve tried this quiz question again and again on highly educated people and, even once they know the answer, there are looks of “does not compute”.
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I’ve tried this quiz question again and again on highly educated people and, even once they know the answer, there are looks of “does not compute”.
George Osborne has returned to that old favourite – elected mayors. A Heseltine old favourite, to be precise, developed during his period in the political wilderness.
The Mayor of London says he saved taxpayers millions by buying three German water cannon – but the Home Secretary says difficult issues around their use still “need to be considered properly.”
Belarus border guards order me out of the country, but our resourceful Channel 4 News cameraman slips past them for a much-needed glimpse of Europe’s most repressive regime.
Nicky Jacobs is cleared of the murder of PC Keith Blakelock during the Broadwater Farm riots in 1985.
Thousands of girls and young women trapped in gangs are living “desperate lives” in which rape is considered normal, a new report warns.
Russia is planning a “full-blown military intervention” into mainland Ukraine, warns Ukraine’s UN representative. Is that really what Putin wants? It is out of his control, says one expert.
Gordon Brown is out-flanking quite a few in his party with his prescription for how far Scottish devolution should go.
Russia’s defence ministry dismisses claims that it had threatened Ukrainian troops in Crimea with a “real assault” if they did not surrender by the early hours of Tuesday morning as “utter nonsense”.
David Cameron orders a review after papers show that Margaret Thatcher sent an SAS officer to help the Indian army carry out the notorious storming of the Golden Temple in Amritsar.
Mark Duggan’s relatives insist they are not a “gangster family” as they hold a peaceful vigil outside Tottenham police station.
Hundreds of protesters chant anti-police slogans outside Tottenham police station during a vigil for Mark Duggan.
Two years after a vigil for Mark Duggan sparked riots, his family say they will hold a second this weekend. Duggan’s family want to remember his life, after a jury ruled his killing by police lawful.
After the fatal shooting of Mark Duggan by police is deemed lawful by a jury, Channel 4 News looks at the use of guns by UK police – and whether it’s more than in other police forces around the world.
An inquest jury considering the death of Mark Duggan, whose killing by police sparked widespread riots in England in the summer of 2011, decides he was lawfully killed.