Afghan baby girl sold for $500 by starving family

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…

The sentencing of seven of Hong Kong’s most prominent pro-democracy campaigners for unlawful assembly will send a message not just to Hong Kong, but to Beijing and the rest of the world about whether there is still an independent judiciary, the former Democratic Party chairperson and legislator Emily Lau has said. “We would like to…

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Former Afghan finance minister Omar Zakhilwal says there is no alternative to working with the Taliban. He travelled to Kabul after the city’s fall to the Taliban. Like the rest of Afghanistan he is waiting to see what the Taliban decide to do, but says he is in the capital trying to help form an…

BBC Click’s Marc Cieslak looks at the best tech news stories of the week including: Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and the European Union announce a $1bn (820m euro, £710m) partnership to accelerate clean technology A drone films itself crashing into Iceland’s erupting Fagradalsfjall volcano A robot which can mimic the expressions of people around it…

Armed forces minister James Heappey has said that British soldiers in Afghanistan are facing “extraordinary circumstances” at Kabul airport. UK troops were deployed to Kabul airport to aid the evacuation of people from the country, following the Taliban’s total takeover of Afghanistan. Mr Heappey told the BBC that while soldiers are helping with the evacuation,…