Divine Comedy: Robot Ai-da creates a poem to honour Dante

Electric vehicle start-up, Arrival says it has sold more than 50,000 vans and buses even before one has hit the road. Arrival, founded in 2015, has designed a new style of electric vans and buses which will start being delivered to customers in 2022. Other manufacturers also offer all-electric versions typically of their most popular…

We need to look at the complex set of issues that are pushing people out of Central American countries as well as the pull factors attracting people towards the United States, the former assistant secretary at the Department of Homeland Security, Elizabeth Neumann, has said. Every administration dating back to George W Bush has looked…

Long-time democracy campaigner and Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov has said he is very concerned for the health of Alexei Navalny who is three weeks into a prison hunger strike. He told BBC World News: “We understand that the West cannot save Navalny, but it can seal his fate by simply ignoring him.” It was…

Deaths from opioid use in the US have skyrocketed over the last year. Provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed that 88,000 people had died from drug overdoses in the 12 month period ending in August 2020 – an increase of 27% on the previous year. The US authorities say…

Music group Duran Duran decided to collaborate with artificial intelligence (AI) software to create their new music video, Invisible. But what would the band, which has sold over 100 million records and has been performing for five decades, make of the finished product? BBC Click’s Lara Lewington speaks to Nick Rhodes to find out more….

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…