Chile

A £1bn telescope under construction in the Chilean Andes is designed to capture the very earliest moments of the universe and will revolutionise every area of astronomy, as Tom Clarke reports.

Jon Snow speaks to Gael Garcia Bernal one of Latin America’s most celebrated film stars about his new Oscar nominated movie ‘No’, which revisits Chile under General Pinochet in 1988.

The world’s largest and most complex astronomical observatory officially opens for business in Chile. Science Correspondent Tom Clarke is there.

Someone Czech his pockets! Czech Republic President Vaclav Klaus is embroiled in an embarrassing blunder as he his caught on camera pocketing a pen on a state visit to Chile.

Manchester United has welcomed the Chile miners to Old Trafford. The men met Sir Bobby Charlton whose father was a miner.

At least 81 inmates are killed and 14 others seriously injured as a fire swept through a prison in the Chilean capital, officials say.

One of the Uruguayan rugby team, who spent 70 days in the Andes mountains following the 1972 plane crash, tells Channel 4 News about counselling the Chilean miners.

The endurance epic of “Los 33 Mineros” of San Jose will go down as one of the great survival stories of all time, writes Jonathan Miller

Manuel Gonzales was the first rescuer to go down and meet the Chile miners half a mile underground. He tells Jonathan Miller what it felt like to go down the shaft to them.

Channel 4 News has obtained the first interview with one of the Chilean miners to be screened on British television. Richard Villarroel says they were “waiting for death” while trapped underground.

Exclusive: The man who led the rescue mission that saved 33 trapped Chilean miners tells Channel 4 News Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jonathan Miller his wife wanted to kill him when he got home.

The day after their dramatic rescue, three of the 33 Chilean miners have been released from hospital. Channel 4 News talks to an expert about their psychological well-being.

The popular comparisons are the moon landings and Apollo 13. But the one I can’t get away from is the Kursk.

All 33 of the Chilean miners trapped for 69 days underground have been freed, after a 24 hour rescue mission. Jonathan Miller in Copiapo says there’s “national delight” at the success.

The 33 rescued Chilean miners have been sent iPods by Apple, and promised football tickets by major clubs. But the psychological pain of their ordeal is not over, an expert tells Channel 4 News.