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Facebook launches new privacy features which echo Google+
Facebook has announced new ways for users to control the privacy of the content that they share using the world’s largest social network, as our Technology Correspondent Benjamin Cohen reports.
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FactCheck: Will prisons in England and Wales burst at the seams?
“The powder-keg potential of the situation is clear to voices from inside the prison system – rapidly rising numbers of new inmates, many of them vulnerable first-timers thrown in with serving prisoners, some members of street gangs whose violent rivalries will continue on the inside.”
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Kew Millennium Seedbank launches native flower project
Experts at Kew hope that by growing difficult to cultivate plants they can help restore Britain’s threatened meadows.
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Anti-corruption campaigner Anna Hazare arrested
India’s leading anti-corruption campaigner has been arrested just hours before he was due to begin a fast to the death.
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FactCheck: Can councils ‘convict and evict’ rioters?
There was tough talk from the Government today, with Housing Minister Grant Shapps backing councils that want to ‘convict and evict’ rioters from social housing. But is the Government’s bark worse than its bite? FactCheck investigates.
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News Corp annual profits rise
News Corporation reports a rise in its annual profits as Rupert Murdoch says the phone-hacking scandal has had “no material impact on our other operations”.
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Riot victim Ashraf Haziq ‘feels sorry’ for attackers
Malaysian student Ashraf Haziq says he “feels sorry” for the people who mugged him during riots in Hackney earlier this week.
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Nasa scientists ‘spot flowing water on Mars’
Nasa scientists claim they have discovered new evidence that water flows on Mars, raising the possibility that life could exist on the planet.
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Landlords from Hell revisited
Jon Snow’s investigation into rogue landlords for Dispatches learns that despite warnings to the government about the scale of the problem, cuts to local authorities are making things even worse.
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Vesta asteroid pictures almost show ‘another world’
As Nasa releases new images from space of the asteroid Vesta, an astronomer tells Channel 4 News why getting up close and personal with the giant rock is so significant.
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Syrian army hits Hama hard and fast
Syrian Special Forces and tanks are battling to wrest back control of Hama, reports defence analyst Anthony Tucker-Jones.
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NHS waiting lists delayed so patients ‘die or pay’
A report claims treatments are being delayed so patients leave waiting lists by going private or dying, as Channel 4 News hears the system is “a game”.
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Somalia's families forced to choose between children
Jonathan Rugman blogs from Somalia on the heart-turning decisions some families are having to make as famine threatens the lives of millions of people in east Africa.
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England grind down Indian resistance to win at Lord’s
England win the First Test against India at Lord’s by 196 runs, with fast bowler Jimmy Anderson taking five wickets, including that of Sachin Tendulkar.
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Amy Winehouse death leaves ‘gaping hole’
Amy Winehouse’s family say the singer’s death has left a gaping hole in their lives. The 27-year-old was found dead in her north London flat on Saturday afternoon.
