Interviewing the Taliban: 'Still now I am terrified'
Afghan news anchor Behishta Arghand made history when she interviewed the Taliban.
BBC Click’s Jen Copestake looks at the best technology news stories of the week including: Amazon opens its fifth till-less, “just walk out” grocery store in London’s Chalk Farm neighbourhood An autonomous artificially intelligent ship, the Mayflower 400, sets sail across the Atlantic ocean The Young Voices choir becomes the largest group of children to…
Actor George Takei, most well-known for his role as Lt Sulu in the science fiction series Star Trek, has talked about why he decided to hide his sexuality for so long. Takei said that as a teenager he realised that societal attitudes meant you could not be gay and be hired as an actor in…
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…
There is a bigger context to the current hostilities between Israel and Gaza, the political analyst and former spokesperson for the Palestinian Authority, Nour Odeh, has said. She told BBC World News: “We have to look at the wider picture. We cannot just say that Hamas needs to stop firing rockets. We have to ask…
With a wide range of shapes, sizes and colours, finding the right pair of glasses can take time. But this means companies may also have to overstock to provide the wide selection of products customers expect. So could face scanning combined with 3D-printing change how we buy glasses and help move towards a more sustainable…
It is a 100 days before the 2021 Olympics begins in Tokyo and athletes all over the world are back in training. Marathon runner Stephanie Davis, who will be competing in the Games for the first time, told BBC World News that she was really grateful that the Olympics was going ahead after it was…