With lockdown restrictions easing in some parts of the world, many people are looking forward to the prospect of travelling again. But how easy will it be and how will vaccines affect travel? Tim Willcox put questions from BBC World News viewers to epidemiologist Daniel Lopez Acuna and Lisa Minot, the travel editor at the…
BBC Click’s Jen Copestake looks at the best technology news stories of the week including: After 27 years Jeff Bezo steps down as the head of Amazon Footage of the world’s first 3D printed school, based in Malawi, is released – the school opened its doors last month A Belgian artist creates an artificial intelligence…
Zalmay Khalizad, US Special Representative for Afghanistan speaks to the BBC as the Taliban capture a major border crossing between Afghanistan and Iran. He said that for Afghanistan’s war to end, there has to be a political agreement, and stressed that Taliban forces taking Kabul is an unlikely situation.
A lack of black characters led graphic designer Yvonne and daughter Alyssa to create a videogame.
The presence of Nato in Afghanistan in the past 20 years produced mixed results, a former president of Afghanistan has said. The reconstruction of the country’s infrastructure, helping with education and other areas was very welcome, and produced good results for the country, Hamid Karzai told BBC World News. But the military plans to fight…
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…
It was Elena Blasser’s dream to live near the beach. It came true a decade ago when she moved in to Champlain Towers South. Now, with the partial collapse of the building, her son Pablo Rodríguez has lost hope that his mother and grandmother are still alive – and he wants answers. Video by Angélica…
China is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the ruling Communist Party with a crowd of about 70,000 people in Beijing’s iconic Tiananmen square. President Xi Jinping told the country that the Chinese people would not allow a foreign power to bully or subjugate them and that China would resolve the “Taiwan question” to achieve complete…
China’s President Xi Jinping had a “hidden message” about Taiwan in his speech marking 100 years of the Communist Party, Prof Shaun Breslin has said. The author of China Risen told BBC World News that China’s leader was warning other countries to steer clear of issues about Taiwan. “I think there is also a hidden…
Nick Kwek looks at how close we are to personal aviation vehicles and the challenges they face.
