India: ‘A broken country, a country in torment’

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…

Iceland’s rocky, volcanic and icy landscape has many similarities to the other worlds humans may visit in the future. So could the country become a place to research the challenges of living on new planets? BBC Click’s Spencer Kelly finds out more. See more at Click’s website and @BBCClick

A lack of power and funding has limited the World Health Organization’s (WHO) capacity to deal with pandemics, the co-chair of a panel looking at the response to the coronavirus pandemic has said. Helen Clark, from the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response, told BBC World News that the WHO was caught in the…

Victims of ransomware gangs are being urged to report it rather than pay the criminals behind the attacks. The gangs use malicious software to scramble and steal an organisation’s computer data and demand money to restore it. Megan Stifel, executive director of the Global Cyber Alliance, which seeks to reduce cyber risk, told BBC World…

Bollywood star and philanthropist Sonu Sood is helping India in the battle against coronavirus. He has been using social media to help find hospital beds and oxygen supplies for those in need. He has recently had Covid-19 and told BBC World News things had been “tough” not because he was recovering from coronavirus but because…

The former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd has backed talks between Myanmar’s military and Indonesia’s foreign minister Retno Marsudi. The meeting agreed by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) was criticised by some in Myanmar, also known as Burma, because it was seen to give legitimacy to the military regime. But Mr Rudd told…