Dragged up the stairs for my hospital appointment

With a wide range of shapes, sizes and colours, finding the right pair of glasses can take time. But this means companies may also have to overstock to provide the wide selection of products customers expect. So could face scanning combined with 3D-printing change how we buy glasses and help move towards a more sustainable…

BBC China correspondent John Sudworth has left Beijing and moved to Taiwan after pressure and threats from the Chinese authorities. Even as we were leaving we were followed by plain clothes policeman through the departure hall of the airport, he told BBC World News. It was a reminder of the “grim reality of reporting in…

The state of South Australia is home to half of all the wine produced in the country, but the state is also very dry and changing climate conditions and water shortages mean optimising water use is essential. The University of Adelaide is developing water sensors, thermal imaging and rovers with artificial intelligence to help winegrowers…

A Malian woman has recently given birth to nine babies – five girls and four boys at a clinic in Casablanca, Morocco. The nonuplets will have to spend “two to three months” in incubators, a director of the clinic has said, but both the mother, Halima Cissé, and her children are said to be doing…

Regular and strenuous exercise increases the risk of motor neurone disease (MND) in people who are genetically vulnerable, scientists have said. One of the researchers at the University of Sheffield, Dr Johnathan Cooper-Knock, told BBC World News that in the future they hoped to be able to work out the risk on an individual basis…

The Middle East is warming faster than much of the world, and Kuwait is careering towards unbearable temperatures. With the mercury topping 53C, three Kuwaiti citizens – an influencer, a weather forecaster and a retired civil servant – raise the alarm. They urge that Kuwait must not be allowed to get any hotter – and…