Wonganomics: the role of student debt and housing costs
Wonga boss Errol Damelin tells Channel 4 News his payday lending firm is benefiting from a “generational shift” away from credit cards and unauthorised overdrafts.
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Payday loans costs will be capped under plans being announced by the government on Monday.
It was home to Philip Larkin and has the UK’s only known “bridge to nowhere” – now Hull is chosen as UK city of culture for 2017 after a bid themed around “a city coming out of the shadows”.
The Conservative party has been caught removing a decade of speeches from the internet, but thanks to the British Library’s archives we bring you the statements they may prefer were forgotten.
Wanted: 100,000 volunteers willing to give up the secrets of their DNA for the public good. Channel 4 News speaks to the man behind the creation of a UK database of human genes.
British architect Garry Thomas visited Iwaki, near the damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, recently. He found a place barely reconstructed, and residents losing hope.
Islamic fighters waging war in Syria claim YouTube as their new frontline, posting increasingly slick films to advertise their triumphs on the battlefield and competing for funding and recruits.
It’s “chocolate week”, that annual celebration of all things indulgent and sweet. But has chocolate finally overcome its darker history – from child trafficking to crop-ravaged land?
Scientists claim a “turning point” in the fight against degenerative brain disease, but are we really anywhere near a cure for diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s?
Austerity kids: young people in Ireland are demonstrating against education cuts and rising student fees. One student on the march tells Channel 4 News about the “mental strain” of having no money.
Closed for business: 800,000 federal workers are sent home without pay as Republicans and Democrats fail to agree a budget. So what happens next? Crisis – or compromise?
In Austria and some other European countries, testing services tell clubbers whether their drugs are cut with other substances. But are such checks any more than quality control for the drugs market?
The private sector is now driving over three-quarters of growth in purpose-built student digs. At the start of a new academic year, Channel 4 News asks what happened to old-fashioned halls.
Wonga boss Errol Damelin tells Channel 4 News his payday lending firm is benefiting from a “generational shift” away from credit cards and unauthorised overdrafts.
Protesters and the military clash across Egypt, with reports of heavy gunfire and deaths on both sides, as thousands of pro-Morsi supporters stage a “day of anger”.
Kevin Rudd promises a same-sex marriage bill within 100 days if he is re-elected in Australia’s forthcoming elections. Channel 4 News examines this, and the other key election issues.