It had to be the birth of the year, paparazzi photographers were at the ready in Nice in the south of France as news spread that Angelina Jolie had given birth to twins, one girl, one boy. Newspapers wasted no time announcing the happy news as their...
YouTube's multibillion-pound success was built initially on user-generated content; so successful has it become that the company's owner Google recently announced plans to pay contributors shares of advertising revenue. But as anyone who uses the sit...
Three giant pandas have settled into their new home at Yunnan Zoo in Kunming, after being evacuated from southwest China's quake-ravaged Sichuan province. The 2-year-old females are set to remain at the base for a period of around 2 years, where they...
Next week, Bill Gates is stepping down from Microsoft to focus on his charity. Its goal -- to rid the world of diseases like malaria. By giving away around 30 billion dollars, he is always welcome in the corridors of power. Is he supportive of the wo...
When a pod of dolphins swam up a river near Falmouth in Cornwall on Monday, it became one of the worst cases of mass stranding in the U.K. It's thought something may have panicked them into their fatal journey. Having first denied it, the Ministry of...
When a pod of dolphins swam up a river near Falmouth in Cornwall on Monday, it became one of the worst cases of mass stranding in the U.K. It's thought something may have panicked them into their fatal journey. Having first denied it, the Ministry of...
Service levels at Heathrow airport are a national embarrassment according to the international aviation chief Giovanni Bisignani. He said that UK regulators should never have allowed the airport to increase charges by a massive 86 percent over the ne...
Survivors pulled from the rubble of the China earthquake have begun describing their dreadful ordeal and the other voices are also emerging on the Internet. Many are searching desperately for relatives and friends, hoping someone else on the message...
Rescue teams stopped work, troops bowed their heads and China's president stood in silence in central Beijing exactly one week after the Sichuan earthquake left tens of thousands of people dead. Sirens wailed and flags flew at half-mast as China bega...
The Channel 4 News has learned that the government amended legislation which would have forced it to take account the needs of disabled people just weeks before announcing that thousands of post offices were closed. The department of work and pension...
