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Indonesian president Joko Widodo has spoken of his country’s struggle with the pandemic earlier this year, describing how hospitals and facilities could not cope. Speaking exclusively to the BBC’s Asia presenter Karishma Vaswani, Mr Widodo said that the situation in the country had greatly improved and steps were being taken to address discrepancies in facilities…

BBC Click’s Marc Cieslak looks at the best of the week’s technology news, including: Gamers under 18 in China are being told they can play for only very limited hours Vauxhall says the global shortage of computer chips will continue to be a problem’ for the auto industry for the rest of the year Agility…

On 4 August 2020, Lebanon’s capital was rocked by a catastrophic blast as hundreds of tons of ammonium nitrate exploded in the port, killing at least 200 people and injuring thousands. An investigation is underway but has not yet been made public. The country’s ambassador to the UK, Rami Mortada, told BBC World News that…

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

During the 1980s the BBC ran the Computer Literacy Project exploring the world of computing. A series of home computers known as BBC Micros were created and viewers were taught how to program them. The project helped inspire a generation of coders. The BBC’s Alex Humphrey’s visits the National Computing Museum to find out more….

Hungarian opposition leader Peter Marki-Zay has said if he wins the election, he would “probably” rescind the 2018 law criminalising lawyers and activists who help asylum seekers. He told Stephen Sackur, of BBC News’s Hardtalk programme, he would have to look at the details but there was “no simple answer”. Watch the full interview on…