Have we reached the era of flying cars?

Lara Lewington looks at some of the latest gadgets to help make the most of your summer.

A spokesman for the Taliban has told the BBC’s Yalda Hakim “there will be no revenge” on the people of Afghanistan. Suhail Shaheen called the presenter live on air. “We assure the people in Afghanistan, particularly in the city of Kabul, that their properties, their lives are safe – there will be no revenge on…

Yemen is approaching six years of conflict, described by aid agency Unicef as the “world’s worst humanitarian crisis”. The World Health Organization’s representative to Yemen, Dr Adham Rashad Abdel-Moneim, told BBC World News as well as trying to deal with the coronavirus pandemic, the country was also trying to tackle other communicable and non-communicable diseases….

Ayse Bugra explains how her husband, philanthropist Osman Kavala, is coping in jail.

Reality television show Married At First Sight Australia has become an unexpected success in the UK during the coronavirus lockdown. Despite originally airing in Australia in 2019, the series has had millions of viewers on the E4 television channel and its on-demand service during its recent UK broadcast. Martha Kalifatidis and Michael Brunelli, one of…

Afghan journalist Bilal Sarwary has covered events in Afghanistan over the past 20 years, from the US-led invasion to the fall of Kabul to Taliban militants earlier this month. He told BBC World News how repeated visits from the Taliban to his office had caused him and his family to go into hiding and then…