Afghanistan: ‘World silently watches this war against women’
As the Taliban advance there are feelings of grief and fear, a child rights activist in Kabul says.
Huawei has revealed the third iteration of its folding smartphone, abandoning its previous designs and taking some inspiration from Samsung. This time, the folding display on the Mate X2 is protected inside the phone. BBC Click’s Chris Fox went hands-on with the phone and described it as the best folding phone so far – but…
BBC Click’s Jen Copestake looks at the best technology news stories of the week including: Amazon opens its fifth till-less, “just walk out” grocery store in London’s Chalk Farm neighbourhood An autonomous artificially intelligent ship, the Mayflower 400, sets sail across the Atlantic ocean The Young Voices choir becomes the largest group of children to…
Bollywood star and philanthropist Sonu Sood is helping India in the battle against coronavirus. He has been using social media to help find hospital beds and oxygen supplies for those in need. He has recently had Covid-19 and told BBC World News things had been “tough” not because he was recovering from coronavirus but because…
A leading campaigner for women’s rights in Afghanistan was evacuated from Kabul last week, after going into hiding.
Some fashion companies are creating virtual clothes to reduce their environmental footprint.
There is no clear reason to link the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine with blood clots, the professor of European Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine has said. Prof Martin McKee told BBC World News the countries suspending use of the vaccine were being “ultra cautious”. He said people should be “reasonably…