Dragged up the stairs for my hospital appointment

Attempts to stop Hongkongers marking the 32nd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown is having the opposite effect of what was intended, the managing director of the Hong Kong Democracy Council, Samuel Chu, has said. A public vigil to mark the anniversary has been banned by Hong Kong for the second year running citing coronavirus…

The United States is not an honest broker in the Israel-Gaza conflict, John Dugard, a former United Nations Special Rapporteur to the UNHCR has said. He told BBC World News: “I think it has become very clear that the US is not an honest broker. First of all there’s the evidence provided by the failure…

The advance of the Taliban across Afghanistan represents a betrayal and catastrophic failure by the US, UK and Nato, says Rory Stewart, a former UK International Development Secretary. He told BBC World News that Western involvement in Afghanistan had involved around 2,500 troops supporting Afghan forces and air support. That support had confined the Taliban…

A doctor working in a rural area of India’s Maharashtra state has spoken about the many challenges of treating people during the coronavirus pandemic. Many people are living below the poverty line and there are difficulties around accessing basic healthcare and a mistrust of modern medicine, Dr Ashita Rebecca Singh told BBC World News. India…

A picture of a hug during the coronavirus pandemic has been named World Press Photo of the Year. The image shows an 85-year-old Brazilian woman at a care home getting her first embrace in five months through a transparent hug curtain. The winner of the World Press Photo of the Year, Mads Nissen, told BBC…

Actor George Takei, most well-known for his role as Lt Sulu in the science fiction series Star Trek, has talked about why he decided to hide his sexuality for so long. Takei said that as a teenager he realised that societal attitudes meant you could not be gay and be hired as an actor in…