Climate change: can the UN break the deadlock?
Organisers are expecting 100,000 people to take to the streets of Manhattan to call for global action on climate change. But will it translate to action in the corridors of the UN?
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Organisers are expecting 100,000 people to take to the streets of Manhattan to call for global action on climate change. But will it translate to action in the corridors of the UN?
Deutsche Bank’s warning over an independent Scotland’s finances is all over the headlines. How seriously should we take it?
There are a panoply of risks associated to Scottish Independence. The transition risks might be survivable, but goodwill is required from London and Edinburgh if it is going to work.
If the yes camp wins next Thursday it will be, in large part, because in addition to the SNP, this “non-party” broad coalition has inspired people.
Shelling in the eastern areas of Mariupol and Donetsk shake the Ukraine ceasefire agreed just two days ago, but both sides are blaming each other.
Taking away extremists’ British citizenship is one measure the government proposed to combat terrorism, much to the concern of lawyers and humanitarian groups. But why does it want to?
Of the big macro issues – banking, debt, oil and the pound – the most critical is banking. But a desire to reject free markets, privatisation and high inequality will also play its part.
The SNP says it wants to rid Scotland of Trident nuclear missiles. Will it be able to keep the promise if Scots vote for independence?
Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond wins a convincing 71 per cent of the vote in a snap poll after the second televised debate against Alistair Darling on Scottish independence.
It is vegetarian, has a low carbon footprint, and even the beer is locally sourced: Sweden’s Way Out West festival brings original hippy principles to the digital age. But is it fun?
I can’t get her out of my mind. Two year old Nema. Her broken skull and fractured nose have imposed two vast round suppurating panda sized blobs effectively closing her tiny eyes.
Professor Mads Gilbert, who is tending the wounded in Gaza, has written to Channel 4 News with an account of the effects of the Israeli shelling on Saturday night.
You’re unlikely to get your arm sliced off with a lightsabre or have to trick your way past stormtroopers so what can we expect from the UK’s first spaceport?
Beavers who have set up home in Devon should be left alone and allowed to flourish, wildlife enthusiasts say, as the government announces plans to re-locate them.
With unemployment at its lowest since reunification, a growing economy and a chance of winning the football World Cup, a new study suggests Germany is at its most optimistic in history.