Afghanistan: 100 days of Taliban rule

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…

Countries in West Africa are said to be drowning under the weight of waste shipped to their shores.

The EU’s former chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, says changes the UK wants to make to the Northern Ireland protocol have caused him to lose trust because what is at stake is not goods or trade but peace. The protocol was very precisely negotiated by UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson himself less than two years…

The president of the Australian Medical Association has spoken of his disappointment at Italy’s decision to block the export of 250,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine to the country. Dr Omar Khorshid told BBC World News the country would soon be in a position to manufacture the vaccine itself but for now was dependent on…

BBC Click’s Jen Copestake looks at some of the best technology news stories of the week including: Facebook lifts its ban on political advertising which has been in place since the US presidential election in November The Last of US 2 receives a record-breaking 13 nominations at the Bafta gaming awards Tiny insect-like drones are…

São Paulo Governor João Doria has described President Jair Bolsonaro as a “crazy guy” who is making the country’s coronavirus situation worse. Speaking to the BBC, he said Brazil’s health system was “on the verge of collapse” amid a spike in cases and deaths. “Brazil is fighting two viruses – the coronavirus and the Bolsonaro…