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Gunfire rang out at Kabul as the Taliban celebrated the last US troops leaving Afghanistan. BBC News chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet says the skies were full of red tracer and machine gun fire as the Taliban hailed the US departure, nearly 20 years since the US-led invasion forced them from power.

Leaders of individual countries need to work for the good of the world as a whole if we are to be better prepared to tackle pandemics, the World Health Organization’s special envoy for Covid-19, has said. “Unless we work for the good of all, we are all going to end up in a lot of…

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…

Sleep apnoea, where a person temporarily stops breathing while they are asleep, can lead to serious health conditions including high blood pressure and increased risk of a stroke, if it is left untreated. Comedian and travel writer Dom Joly has the condition and uses a Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) machine to help improve his…

The US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken’s visit to Ukraine represents a huge signal of support for the Ukrainian people and government, Nina Jankowicz, an Eastern European analyst and Global Fellow at The Wilson Centre has said. She told BBC World News the US had made clear its opposition to “Russian aggression” and its support…

Cloud gaming has been called the future of video games, with all the action produced in a data centre rather than on an expensive PC or console in the home. The benefits include never having to download software updates and being able to play anywhere, not just in the living room – but gamers will…