From Click: Extremists using video-game chats to spread hate
Campaigners say including extremist narratives among everyday conversations can be a pathway to radicalisation.
Adele Raemer, who lives in a kibbutz in southern Israel, has told BBC World News about her experiences of the Israel-Gaza conflict. She was exhausted from running back and forth to her “safe room”, she said. And the sounds of rocket alerts and artillery were keeping her awake. “This is not something anybody could or…
BBC Click’s Romana Kreider looks at the best technology news stories of the week including: Elon Musk announced that his satellite internet service Starlink could reach half a million customers over the coming year. MIT and Harvard engineers designed a face mask that can diagnose Covid-19 within about 90 minutes. Boston Dynamics’ robot dog Spot…
The Israeli-Gaza conflict can be ended if Hama stops firing rockets, Jerusalem’s deputy mayor Fleur Hassan-Nahoum has said. She told BBC World News on Thursday that Hamas had been looking for a war for some time: “They have been planning this for months. The Palestinian Authority are trying to distract people from cancelling an election.”…
British supermodel Naomi Campbell has spoken about being a first-time mother. In an exclusive interview with BBC HARDtalk, she told Zeinab Badawi: “I’m really lucky, I think I have a dream child.” Ms Campbell, 51, made the surprise announcement in May, and said she hoped her daughter would follow her example of being a strong…
Fancy a job with great sea views? Meet the engineers who maintain 174 turbines that make up the world’s largest offshore wind farm, off the coast of Yorkshire. They live on a ship in the North Sea for 14 days at a time, working 12-hour shifts. Each turn of a turbine blade can provide enough…
The BBC’s Yogita Limaye witnesses first-hand the extreme poverty engulfing millions in Afghanistan.