Afghanistan: ‘Travesty everything evaporated so quickly’

Sweeping changes to Hong Kong’s electoral rules were “not a good sign” and have turned democratic progress “back to square one”, Lo Kin-hei of the Democratic Party said. “These kind of changes… made today is turning Hong Kong back for 20-odd years. “In the past 20 years there was some sort of progress in the…

The pre-COP26 meeting is taking place in Milan where climate ministers are discussing key issues that will be addressed at the upcoming UN conference COP26. At the Youth4Climate conference, which finished on Thursday and was also in Milan, climate activist Greta Thunberg spoke of the “empty words and promises” of politicians, but also urged people…

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…

Leaders of individual countries need to work for the good of the world as a whole if we are to be better prepared to tackle pandemics, the World Health Organization’s special envoy for Covid-19, has said. “Unless we work for the good of all, we are all going to end up in a lot of…

Ivermectin was called a Covid “miracle” drug, championed by vaccine opponents, but research has shown that more than a third of 26 major trials of the drug for use on Covid have serious errors or signs of potential fraud. Dr Kyle Sheldrick, of the University of New South Wales, who was one of the group…

Non-fungible-tokens (NFTs) use blockchain technology to create a unique digital certificate or token which states who owns a virtual or physical item. They have been used to sell digital art, memes, a tweet and digital trading cards, but could they also be used to purchase homes? BBC Click’s Lara Lewington finds out more. See more…