Afghanistan: ‘Travesty everything evaporated so quickly’

Democratic US Congressman Tom Malinowski has warned the war over Afghanistan will continue. The tragedy of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan had been set in motion by the Trump administration and he regretted President Biden had carried the policy through, Mr Malinowski said. But neither administration had levelled with the American people. “They keep saying…

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has not rejected coronavirus lockdowns but has left it to individual states to impose measures from curfews to full lockdowns, the national spokesperson for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Shaina Nana Chudasama, has said. “Each state is given the choice to decide whether they want to impose a curfew,…

Some fashion companies are creating virtual clothes to reduce their environmental footprint.

Chris Fox looks at some of the best technology news stories of the week including: A legal challenge which could ban UK government ministers from using self-destructing WhatsApp or Signal text messages for official business is launched Wine experts discover whether a bottle of wine which has spent a year in space tastes any different…

Team BRIT is a motorsport team made up of six disabled drivers who use adapted cars to compete in races against non-disabled drivers equally. BBC Click’s Paul Carter went to visit the team to find out more about the car and the team’s hopes for the future. See more at Click’s website and @BBCClick

European Parliament vice-president Nicola Beer says heads of state must turn the EU summit on boosting vaccine supplies and distribution into a global response to the coronavirus pandemic. She told BBC World News the EU should join forces with global leaders, including UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson. A vaccine export ban would result in a…