Aukus: UK, US and Australia launch pact to counter China

BBC Click’s Jen Copestake looks at the best of the week’s technology news stories including: UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Microsoft founder Bill Gates strike a £400m ($550m) partnership to invest in green technology projects Former US President Donald Trump announces plans to launch a social media network – TRUTH Social Robo-cat waiters are…

A meeting between UK and Ukrainian officials has been held at the Ministry of Defence to discuss the growing crisis over Russian troop movements near Ukraine’s border. Ukraine’s ambassador to the UK, Vadym Prystaiko, said it was part of a regular dialogue between UK and Ukraine but today’s meeting had been very much influenced by…

States tend to have a predictable response to gun laws after mass shootings, a law professor says.

Israel is looking for a “sustainable peace” rather than a sticking plaster which becomes a “prescription for another Gaza war a month from now,” the senior adviser to the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said. Mark Regev told BBC World News: “We want to come out of this with a solution that will bring…

Ayse Bugra explains how her husband, philanthropist Osman Kavala, is coping in jail.

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…