Afghan baby girl sold for $500 by starving family
The BBC’s Yogita Limaye witnesses first-hand the extreme poverty engulfing millions in Afghanistan.
Mahbouba Seraj is a prominent Afghan women’s rights activist and journalist. When the Taliban came back to power in August 2021, she stayed in the country and continues to voice the concerns of Afghan women. From Kabul, she tells Yalda Hakim for BBC 100 Women about her fears for her nation, and has a personal…
BBC Click’s Romana Kreider looks at the best technology news stories of the week including: Elon Musk announced that his satellite internet service Starlink could reach half a million customers over the coming year. MIT and Harvard engineers designed a face mask that can diagnose Covid-19 within about 90 minutes. Boston Dynamics’ robot dog Spot…
A virtual summit of 40 world leaders is discussing ways of fulfilling the 2015 Paris climate agreement. US President Biden has pledged to cut carbon emissions by 50-52% below 2005 levels by the end of this decade. Speaking ahead of the summit, Prof Lord Nicholas Stern told BBC World News that it was important that…
Nasa has said it will send two missions to Venus at the end of the decade in order to examine the planet’s atmosphere and geological features. Dhara Patel, an astronomer at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich told BBC World News on Thursday that the missions could shed light on why Venus, which had very similar…
A life-long friend of Aung San Suu Kyi has spoken of her worries about her detention. Ann Pasternak Slater, who is also the godmother to one of Aung San Suu Kyi’s sons said she had been following the news “with great concern and great sorrow that the victory they won in the elections which would…
Nato foreign ministers are meeting in Riga in Latvia on Tuesday to discuss the build-up of Russian forces on the border with Ukraine and the migrant crisis on Poland’s border with Belarus. The Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has called on Nato for more help in the region – and for countries to address the…