Katty Kay: 'It's been a privilege to sit in this chair'
Legendary anchor Katty Kay signs off from the BBC for the final time.
Father-of-three and high-tech company chief executive Eitan Singer tries to reassure his children about the future as they face nightly rocket attacks from Hamas and have to rush to a shelter in Jerusalem. He told BBC World News: “We try to confront the situation. “It is not easy – seven days in a row when…
There are some hard and difficult lessons to be learned about the recent events in Afghanistan, Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has said. It was a tragedy that the Afghan security forces collapsed so quickly, Mr Stoltenberg told BBC World News. He blamed a lack of leadership and logistics from the Afghan government, rather than…
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 UK, US and Australia have announced a special security pact to share advanced technologies including nuclear-powered submarine know-how. The partnership, labelled Aukus, aims to “defend our shared interests in the Indo-Pacific”, the leaders of the three nations said in a joint statement. US President Joe Biden, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and UK PM…
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…
They were supposed to be the face of Afghanistan’s future – female cabin crew working for the national carrier, Ariana Airlines. Now, they have been told not to come back to work for the time being by their new bosses, the Taliban. Eleven of the women have come together to hide in an abandoned house,…