Afghan baby girl sold for $500 by starving family
The BBC’s Yogita Limaye witnesses first-hand the extreme poverty engulfing millions in Afghanistan.
The world’s wealthiest need to reduce their carbon emissions to help tackle climate change, a report by the Cambridge Sustainability Commission has said. Highest global earners caused a 37% increase in global emissions over 25 years, the document said. For the majority of people making changes is about shifting infrastructure so we can get about…
It was Elena Blasser’s dream to live near the beach. It came true a decade ago when she moved in to Champlain Towers South. Now, with the partial collapse of the building, her son Pablo Rodríguez has lost hope that his mother and grandmother are still alive – and he wants answers. Video by Angélica…
Diplomacy and co-operation between the UK and EU could help ensure easier travel, Portuguese MEP Claudia Monteiro de Aguiar has said. Her comments came after German Chancellor Angela Merkel said all member states should quarantine arrivals from the UK considering the dangers of the spread of Delta variant. But the MEP told BBC World News:…
China is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the ruling Communist Party with a crowd of about 70,000 people in Beijing’s iconic Tiananmen square. President Xi Jinping told the country that the Chinese people would not allow a foreign power to bully or subjugate them and that China would resolve the “Taiwan question” to achieve complete…
Romana Kreider looks at some of the best technology news stories of the week including: Two new foldable smartphones are unveiled by Samsung – the Galaxy Z Flip 3 and Fold 3 Cryptocurrency platform Poly Network lost over $600m (£433m) in one of the sector’s biggest ever cyber heists – the hacker has since returned…