French investigators say that the pilots of the Air France jet, which crashed into the Atlantic two years ago and left no survivors, ignored warnings and failed to follow basic procedures.
For anyone who think the phone-hacking scandal represents a new low for the British media, here’s a reminder that other people have had it much, much worse.
If it had happened today, Ayrton’s Senna’s crash might not have been fatal. Channel 4 News looks back at a moment that changed F1 forever, as a film about the star – Senna – arrives in UK cinemas.
Black box recordings reveal how Air France AF447 stalled and dropped 38,000 feet in three minutes as it plummeted into the Atlantic Ocean in 2009, killing everyone on board.
Same-sex couples are to be given the same legal rights as married heterosexuals in Brazil following a landmark gay rights case.
A former pupil of a Rio de Janeiro school has killed at least 12 people and injured 22 before turning the gun on himself when police attempted to capture him.
A German boy confesses to throwing a banana onto a football pitch during the Scotland Brazil game which prompted Brazilian player Neymar to say he was the victim of racial abuse. Keme Nzerem reports.
Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim is the richest person in the world for the second year in a row, with Russia and China boosting the ranks of the super-wealthy. Channel 4 News maps the billionaire boom.
As the number of people killed in the Brazil floods passes the 500 mark, one scientist tells Channel 4 News that replacing coastal vegetation with urban development has contributed to the disaster.
At least 388 people died as mudslides and floods swept through Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday, in one of Brazil’s worst natural disasters for decades, as Alex Thomson discovers.
Military tanks have been sent into 28 of Rio’s shantytowns after armed gangs attacked police stations and set vehicles alight. At least 23 people have died in the violence.
Military tanks have been sent into 28 of Rio’s shantytowns after armed gangs attacked police stations and set vehicles alight. At least 23 people have died in the violence.
Brazil’s president-elect Dilma Rousseff has vowed to build on the policies of her predecessor which aim to eliminate poverty while improving economic stability.
Brazilian voters has started to elect a new President, with left-leaning civil servant Dilma Rousseff the favourite to take over from popular President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
Jon Snow
Goldman Sachs was right when, earlier this century, its chief economist came up with the concept of the BRIC economies…these were the big economies likely to make it into the top league in the first part of the 21st century: Brazil, Russia, India and China.