Our planet from space
A few months ago I wrote a blog that showcased the stunning images that are captured by the satellites orbiting our planet.
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Author, commentator and polemicist Gore Vidal dies at his home in the Hollywood Hills after complications from pneumonia. He was living alone and had been ill for some time.
Former US deputy defence secretary Paul Wolfowitz says the international community should have supported the Syrian opposition months ago and time has now run out.
A Foreign and Commonwealth soldier in the British Army who Channel 4 News revealed was facing deportation is given discretionary leave to remain in the UK.
Exclusive: The former head of the British Army, General Sir Mike Jackson, tells Channel 4 News that service by Commonwealth soldiers in the armed forces should count towards British citizenship.
Syria promises not to use chemical weapons against its own citizens, an action UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon says that would be “reprehensible”. Alex Thomson reports live from Damascus.
Foreign and Commonwealth soldiers who risked their lives serving in the British Army tell Channel 4 News they want the government to review a new law which leaves them subject to imminent deportation.
The UN says as many as 30,000 Syrian refugees may have crossed into Lebanon in the last 48 hours to escape the bloody uprising, and Syria’s intelligence chief dies of wounds sustained in a bomb blast.
Syrian rebels seize posts on the Iraqi and Turkish borders amid failing diplomacy and fears the government will turn to chemical weapons to stop an uprising that has already killed thousands.
As the Assad regime fights back in the south of Damascus, its opponents in the Free Syrian Army say they have launched their fight for the capital, dubbed “Operation Damascus Volcano”.
Kofi Annan says he is “appalled” by the massacre of up to 200 people in the Syrian village of Tremseh, one of the bloodiest incidents in the country’s ongoing conflict.
Syrian forces attack the capital with mortars for the first time since the uprising against President Assad began, as a senior diplomat calls for others to join him in defecting from the regime.
The government is under fire today for a 20 per cent cut to the armed forces, but Iraq hero Tim Collins says the “best has been done with a bad situation”.
The Archbishop of Canterbury attacks the Big Society concept as “aspirational waffle” designed to conceal a “deeply damaging withdrawal of the state from its responsibilities” to the vulnerable.
East London GP Jackie Applebee is one of the doctors taking part in the one-day protest over changes to pensions and working conditions. She tells Channel 4 News why.
A few months ago I wrote a blog that showcased the stunning images that are captured by the satellites orbiting our planet.