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Channel 4 News speaks to Professor Stephen Hawking’s biographer, celebrating the achievements of a man who was told he wouldn’t live much beyond 22 – as he becomes a septuagenarian.
Social care experts have written to the government urging it to overhaul England’s “failing” social care system, which they say is leaving 800,000 elderly people “lonely, isolated and at risk”.
More riots in the summer, Cameron in trouble and Obama re-elected – just three predictions for 2012 from a political astrologer writing for Channel 4 News. Read on for more.
As Channel 4 News asks you who you think changed the world the most in 2011, Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jonathan Rugman makes the case for a young fruit and vegetable seller from Tunisia.
An estimated four million shoppers cram the UK’s high streets for the Boxing Day sales – with spending hitting record levels. Asha Tanna reports on the battle to beat off economic gloom.
Sales of the video game “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3” hit $1bn in just 16 days. But why are such games are so popular and do they harm your health? Games guru Adrian Hon explains.
A third of high streets are “degenerating or failing”, according to a government commissioned review by TV retail expert Mary Portas.
With a huge increase in empty high street shops, retail expert Mary Portas has produced a government-backed review into how get town centres thriving again.
As two Doctor Who episodes lost by the BBC are unearthed by a collector, a Doctor Who archivist tells Channel 4 News it is a find of “cultural significance”.
Police launch a murder inquiry after the bodies of two adults and two boys, nine and one, are found at a house in the Pudsey area of Leeds, as Darshna Soni reports.
The calls began in early October with panicked sounding ‘pet’ owners begging Dr ‘Ning’ Natarika to do something. Millions of Thais were evacuating their homes, taking only what they could carry. Everything else was left behind – and ‘everything else’ happens to include snakes, monkeys (including an endangered capuchin), wild boar, hundreds of deer, a couple of black panthers, Siberian tigers, black bears, a pride of lions and so on.
Remember the Icelandic ash cloud, which grounded thousands of flights last year? Scientists say they have found a way round it – Channel 4 News checks it out at 12,000 feet.
As figures show the worst retail sales growth for six months, Channel 4 News looks at which towns and cities in the UK are best placed to weather the economic crisis.
As the Bank of England Governor warns UK banks to build up their reserves the eurozone catastrophe talk is ratcheting up in the countdown to the European Council next Friday. Economics Editor Faisal Islam reports.
The population of turtle doves and other UK farmland species has fallen by 90 per cent since the 1970s, bringing levels to a record low. But Channel 4 News hears that the future looks bleak for birds.