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Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh married in November 1947. Winston Churchill described it as a flash of colour in the grey post-war Britain.

Jen Copestake looks at some of the best technology news stories of the week including: Google’s annual I/O developer conference returns in May in a virtual form, the company announces Artist will.i.am announces the launch of a new facemask featuring noise-cancelling headphones, Hepa filters and LED lights – the project is a collaboration with Honeywell…

A pharmacist whose brother died after having the AstraZeneca vaccine has told the BBC she still feels strongly that people should continue have their jabs. Alison Astles’ brother Neil, 59, died of a blood clot on the brain on Sunday, after having the vaccination on 17 March. She said he was “extraordinarily unlucky” and that…

In the United States a person’s willingness to get vaccinated against Covid-19 varies by religious affiliation, with white evangelicals being the least likely demographic to get the vaccine, the Pew Research Centre has found. Nine out of ten atheists would definitely or probably get a vaccine or have already had one, compared to 77% of…

Politicians need to come together to prevent further violence in Northern Ireland, the former British chief negotiator for the Good Friday Agreement has said. Jonathan Powell told BBC World News: “I don’t think this will take us back into the Troubles but I do think politicians are playing with matches. This is the time of…

The mixed messaging over the AstraZenca coronavirus jab is affecting vaccine confidence in low and middle income countries, the co-chair of the African Union’s Africa Vaccine Delivery Alliance for Covid-19 has said. Dr Ayoade Alakija told BBC World News that the vaccine is being rolled out to over two billion people and is often the…

Film-maker Ed Accura’s second film, Blacks Can’t Swim: The Sequel looks at the issues of racial stereotypes and barriers to swimming. Figures from 2020 show that 95% percent of black adults and 80% of black children in England do not swim. He tells BBC World News why he made the film and what he wants…

Researchers have found that people diagnosed with Covid-19 in the previous six months were more likely to develop depression, dementia, psychosis and stroke. One in three people who had previously had coronavirus went on to develop or have relapse of a psychological or neurological condition. Neurology professor Masud Husain, one of the authors of the…

Brazil has recorded 4,000 coronavirus deaths in a single day with hospitals struggling to cope with patient numbers. Tarsila Vieceli, a coronavirus instensive care unit doctor at one hospital told BBC World News the health system had collapsed. She said: “We have been working at full capacity for quite some time right now… it has…

Younger people may be offered alternative vaccines to the AstraZeneca jab, says Prof Paul Hunter.