Ros Atkins on… The US climate conundrum

Three astronauts took off for China’s new space station in the country’s longest crewed mission on Thursday. Astrophysicist Dr Megan Argo, told BBC World News the mission would involve checking out the systems on-board the core module and getting the space station ready for habitation and the next phases of construction.

Australian footballer Josh Cavallo has come out as gay, making him the only current top level male professional player in the world to do so. The Adelaide United player told BBC World News’ Yalda Hakim that the decision to make the announcement took a long time. “There was over six years of pain,” he said,…

BBC Click’s LJ Rich looks at the best tech news stories of the week including: Apple unveiled new iPhone 13 handsets which come with Cinematic Mode, a portrait-style option for shooting videos with depth of field. TikTok launched a range of mental health features, with some support resources linked to the search term “suicide”. Australian…

Infecting mosquitoes with Wolbachia bacteria has reduced the insect’s ability to spread dengue fever by 77% in a trial, scientists have said. The Wolbachia bacteria persists in the mosquito population meaning the intervention only has to be done once to give a community protection from dengue for many years, the lead researcher on the project,…

The Taliban have paraded military equipment, captured during their takeover of Afghanistan, through the streets of Kandahar. The militant showcase comes just days after US troops left Afghanistan, ending over two decades of military presence in the country.

A lack of power and funding has limited the World Health Organization’s (WHO) capacity to deal with pandemics, the co-chair of a panel looking at the response to the coronavirus pandemic has said. Helen Clark, from the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response, told BBC World News that the WHO was caught in the…