Afghanistan: 100 days of Taliban rule
BBC reporter Yalda Hakim visits Kabul to look at four key areas of concern in Afghanistan.
Audio app Clubhouse, is a combination of social network, events platform and live podcasts and has been receiving a lot of attention in Silicon Valley. Despite being in beta, available only on iOS and invite-only, the app has had millions of downloads. The app has also attracted some concerns over cyber-security which the company has…
Vintage petrol-powered Bentleys and Rolls-Royce cars are being re-engineered to fully electric vehicles by a company based at Silverstone, the home of UK motorsport. In a world-first, Lunaz adapts the cars in a process which takes about 26 weeks and starts at £350,000 ($478,000, 405,000 euros). BBC Click’s Jen Copestake finds out more. See more…
Everyone in the Simon family contracted Covid-19, but nine-year-old daughter Makenna went to hospital.
Hundreds of Afghan children – some as young as seven or eight years old – are risking their lives to smuggle sweets and cigarettes into neighbouring countries. They’re hiding under lorries to cross national borders in the hope they’ll be able to get money for their families in exchange for these and other small, saleable…
Electric vehicle start-up, Arrival says it has sold more than 50,000 vans and buses even before one has hit the road. Arrival, founded in 2015, has designed a new style of electric vans and buses which will start being delivered to customers in 2022. Other manufacturers also offer all-electric versions typically of their most popular…
BBC Click’s LJ Rich looks at the best tech news stories of the week including: Amazon signs a $8.45bn (£5.97bn) deal to buy MGM, the Hollywood studio known for releasing movies in the James Bond and Rocky franchises Uber and Lyft start offering free short rides to Americans travelling to get a Covid-19 jab A…