Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta says hopes of developing nations adapting to climate change remain low, as pledges made during the Paris climate talks six years ago remain unfulfilled. On Monday, he urged countries to end carbon emissions and called for an increase in climate financing.
The Oscar-winning film’s VFX supervisor explains how the team created sequences inverted in time.
A BBC investigation has uncovered British waste being illegally shipped to Romania and dumped. The Romanian authorities say that the shipments, labelled as second-hand goods, were really just worthless junk destined for landfill. Millions can be made from this so-called waste crime – because it’s cheaper to send junk abroad and dump it, than to…
At least 120 people have died and hundreds are unaccounted for after some of the worst flooding in western Europe in decades. The acting mayor of Liege in Belgium, Christine Defraigne, told BBC World News that while the river level was now dropping, the city was now facing a “terrible aftermath”. “I think our population…
Facebook has revealed its first pair of “smart glasses” that contain two cameras for taking photos and videos. The specs, called Ray-Ban Stories, are a collaboration with the luxury eyewear brand. Facebook is expected to release fully-fledged augmented reality (AR) spectacles. But Facebook’s head of AR and VR told BBC Click’s Chris Fox they were…
A recent poll in the UK revealed there was a high level of support among managers for making Covid-19 vaccines mandatory for staff returning to work. The survey of more than 1,000 managers, conducted by the Chartered Management Institute, showed that about half think office access should be restricted for those who refused to get…
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.
