German election: Young candidate MPs on climate and taxes
As Germany prepares to go to the polls, the BBC speaks to some of the youngest candidates standing.
The current Israel-Gaza conflict is worse than previous wars, with more intense bombing, artist Malak Mattar says. She told BBC World News her daughter “is really having a hard time sleeping and she is terrified for her life”. “We are a big family of seven members, the youngest is only 10,” Mattar said. “She survived…
In the United States a person’s willingness to get vaccinated against Covid-19 varies by religious affiliation, with white evangelicals being the least likely demographic to get the vaccine, the Pew Research Centre has found. Nine out of ten atheists would definitely or probably get a vaccine or have already had one, compared to 77% of…
A commercial laser cutter has been transformed from a 2D machine to a 3D all-in-one assembler capable of creating devices which can fly straight off the factory line. LaserFactory is designed to create functional devices and robots, Martin Nisser, PhD student at MIT CSAIL said. “We wanted to be able to fabricate something which required…
The Indian government has left individual states in the country to deal with the Covid-19 “tsunami” of infections on their own, Pawan Khera of the opposition National Congress Party said. He told BBC World News that during the first wave the government had carried out a centralised response and had “an obsession” with “premature credit…
Inside IS detention camps in Syria, officials say violence and radicalisation are a growing problem.
Team BRIT is a motorsport team made up of six disabled drivers who use adapted cars to compete in races against non-disabled drivers equally. BBC Click’s Paul Carter went to visit the team to find out more about the car and the team’s hopes for the future. See more at Click’s website and @BBCClick