Today at E3: Politics, polygons and palm trees
Avatar, Rabbids and an alien infection – Marc Cieslak runs us through the first day of E3.
While there has been much attention on Afghans being evacuated at Kabul airport, it was important to remember there were more than 500,000 internally displaced people in the country, the UN refugee agency’s representative to Afghanistan has said. Caroline Van Buren told BBC World News that the country was facing a humanitarian crisis. Failure to…
The supermodel and businesswoman Naomi Campbell has spoken of her sorrow over the rift between the Dukes of Cambridge and Sussex. She told Hardtalk‘s Zeinab Badawi she was sad to watch the Oprah Winfrey interview with Harry and Meghan earlier this year. “For me knowing Princess Diana, to see that her two boys were not…
BBC Click’s LJ Rich looks at some of the best technology news stories of the week including: Up to 150,000 security cameras were hacked in schools, hospitals and businesses – the company that makes the cameras is investigating Ride-hailing company Ola announces plans to build the world’s largest two-wheeler factory in India A robot uses…
Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban has announced that his government will hold a referendum on its new law which includes a ban on the depiction or promotion of homosexuality and gender change to under-18s. Dismissing the idea that this decision was about populism, the country’s foreign minister, Peter Szijjarto, said the referendum was about democracy….
There is no clear reason to link the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine with blood clots, the professor of European Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine has said. Prof Martin McKee told BBC World News the countries suspending use of the vaccine were being “ultra cautious”. He said people should be “reasonably…
As Germany prepares to go to the polls, the BBC speaks to some of the youngest candidates standing.