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Heatwaves are becoming more common in India due to global warming. There’s nowhere to hide especially if you live in a crowded city like Ahmedabad. Shakeela Bano struggles to get her grandson Mohammed to fall asleep in their one room house due to the heat. But as the Life at 50C series on climate change…

Zalmay Khalizad, US Special Representative for Afghanistan speaks to the BBC as the Taliban capture a major border crossing between Afghanistan and Iran. He said that for Afghanistan’s war to end, there has to be a political agreement, and stressed that Taliban forces taking Kabul is an unlikely situation.

White House coronavirus adviser Dr Anthony Fauci tells the BBC the Delta variant will spread unless more Americans get the jab. But Dr Fauci says there would be regional surges of the coronavirus, instead of the nationwide spikes in transmission seen last year.

At least 26 million people are struggling for food following consecutive poor rainfall seasons in the Horn of Africa. Drought conditions in northern Kenya, much of Somalia and southern Ethiopia are predicted to persist until at least mid-2022, putting lives at risk. The situation is already so bad that wild animals are dying in their…

As Covid cases among children in the US rise dramatically, a doctor is calling for them to be prioritised for the vaccine over many adults who are due a third jab. Dr Paul Offit, of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and a member of the US Food and Drug Administration’s vaccine advisory board, said all…

“Long Covid” is affecting a significant number of people in the UK, Dr Deepti Gurdasani, a clinical epidemiologist has said. She told BBC World News that long Covid was not just limited to patients who were very ill or hospitalised. About 13% of people with just mild symptoms went on to develop long Covid with…