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  • 5 May 2018

    Earthquakes have hit Hawaii’s largest island following the eruption of the volcano Kilauea. The quakes are the strongest to have hit the US state since the 1970s and follow the eruption on Thursday which led to hundreds of residents being moved to safety.

  • Protests have taken place in more than 90 Russian cities against Vladimir Putin days before his inauguration for a fourth presidential term. Opposition leader Alexei Navalny was arrested in Moscow. Hundreds of his supporters have also reportedly been detained. Mr Putin’s inauguration on Monday follows his landslide re-election in March and he is already Russia’s…

  • Patrick Green, Chief Executive of anti-knife campaign group the Ben Kinsella Trust speaks to use via the internet. He’s a member of the government’s new Serious Violence Task Force which met for the first time just over a week ago. We asked him whether on this occasion Donald Trump’s comments were at least partly rooted…

  • Surgeons have dismissed as “ridiculous” the apparent suggestion by Donald Trump that guns could help deal with violent crime in London. The US President told a pro-gun rally in Texas that one hospital in the capital is like a “war-zone” because of this year’s spate of fatal stabbings. A trauma specialist from the Royal London…

  • 4 May 2018

    For the first time in 72 years, the Nobel Prize for Literature has been delayed for a year. The awarding body, based in Sweden, has decided it needs to regain public confidence after a string of sexual and financial allegations were levelled at it.

  • “Learn before you speak” – that was President Trump’s advice to the media earlier today. Not advice his own legal team appear to have taken. One of his newer lawyers, the former Mayor of New York, Rudy Giuliani, has been contradicting the President this week about a payment made to an adult film star who…

  • Children with a rare form of cancer will not get a new drug on the NHS. The treatment offers hope of extending life, or even curing the disease. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, or NICE, issued interim guidance today saying the drug was too expensive. Now families say they are faced with…

  • Transport Minister Jo Johnson and Shadow International Trade Secretary, Barry Gardiner, discuss the local election results.

  • The one party with not much to celebrate today is Ukip. The Tories appear to have been the main beneficiary of its collapse in many areas, and especially in the West Midlands. Dudley and Walsall, traditional Labour towns, now have as many Tory councillors as Labour ones.

  • Not a quake then for Labour or the Tories, but there were a few tremors. Theresa May claimed victory for her party, and so did Jeremy Corbyn for his. In fact, every party leader claimed victory, apart from the Ukip chairman, who compared his party to the “black death” – but in a good way.…

  • Local election votes and Brexit committee penalty shoot-out

    On Theresa May’s election victory tour, Channel 4 News’ Anja Popp asked her: “Are you tempted to call a snap general election Prime Minister?” Theresa May laughed and said: “No I think we’ll just enjoy this …” before her ad-lib drifted off. One pro-Remain Conservative told me last night’s results were “a bit of a disaster for our…

  • 3 May 2018

    Thousands of calls have been made to a helpline following revelations that a computer error may have led to 450,000 women in England missing out on breast screening invitations. One man has spoken out saying he believes his wife could still be alive if the issue was spotted sooner.

  • Terrifying footage has has emerged from northern India, where dozens of people were killed by a combination of torrential rain and a dust storm. Many of those who lost their lives were asleep when their homes were destroyed by lightning.

  • Is the justice system failing people who were sexually abused as children? One former footballer, who was abused by the coach Barry Bennell, says he was never informed when the convicted paedophile was released from prison as he should have been. David Lean was also forced to sit in a room with Bennell as they…

  • It started out as a parody of today’s grime and hip hop artists and has since become a viral hit around the world, referenced by protesters in Zimbabwe and even Jeremy Corbyn. Big Shaq is the creation of comedian Michael Dapaah and his hit Man’s Not Hot has clocked up an astonishing quarter of a…