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.
Some grieved, some helped and some worried. Two decades after the terror attacks on the United States on 11 September, 2001, four people from around the world reflect on how they reacted that day, and what’s changed since. Video by Alexandra Ostasiewicz and Dan Lytwyn
A new tool which could help detect breast cancer has been trialled at Nottingham University Hospital. The artificial intelligence known as MIA was trained using historical scans to see if it would make the same diagnosis as humans. In the UK mammograms are reviewed by two specialists and it is hoped the artificial intelligence (AI)…
Israel’s ambassador to the UK, Tzipi Hotovely, has expressed her concern about the ongoing violence between Jewish and Israeli-Arab mobs in the country. “Jerusalem is a city of peace and a city of co-existence,” she told BBC Hardtalk’s Stephen Sackur. “What we have seen this week is actually the result of a horrible incitement of…
Chris Fox looks at some of the best technology news stories of the week including: A legal challenge which could ban UK government ministers from using self-destructing WhatsApp or Signal text messages for official business is launched Wine experts discover whether a bottle of wine which has spent a year in space tastes any different…
The spread of the Delta variant of Covid-19 in parts of the US is encouraging more people to get vaccinated, Dr Marcus Plescia, chief medical officer, at the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, has said. He told BBC World News the past week had seen a slight increase in vaccinations. “We would like…
BBC Click’s Marc Cieslak looks at the best of the week’s technology news, including: Gamers under 18 in China are being told they can play for only very limited hours Vauxhall says the global shortage of computer chips will continue to be a problem’ for the auto industry for the rest of the year Agility…