From Click: Extremists using video-game chats to spread hate

The BBC’s Yogita Limaye witnesses first-hand the extreme poverty engulfing millions in Afghanistan.

Researchers have found that people diagnosed with Covid-19 in the previous six months were more likely to develop depression, dementia, psychosis and stroke. One in three people who had previously had coronavirus went on to develop or have relapse of a psychological or neurological condition. Neurology professor Masud Husain, one of the authors of the…

Seeds from genetically modified barley plants are being used in a process which creates lab-grown meat. A protein in the seeds, called a growth factor, is harvested, milled and purified before it can be used. While the first growth factors came from animals, it is hoped this barley plant method will be cheaper and scalable….

Climate change is causing once-mighty rivers to dry up and temperatures to rise to deadly levels in Mexico.

Thirty years ago, the BBC launched its first international television channel. Originally called World Service Television, the channel is now known as BBC World News and reaches 112 million people a week. Jamie Angus, controller of BBC News output and commissioning told BBC World News that globally television audiences were rising because there was a…

Brazil has recorded 4,000 coronavirus deaths in a single day with hospitals struggling to cope with patient numbers. Tarsila Vieceli, a coronavirus instensive care unit doctor at one hospital told BBC World News the health system had collapsed. She said: “We have been working at full capacity for quite some time right now… it has…