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LJ Rich looks at the best of the week’s technology news stories including: UK’s Competition and Markets Authority orders Meta, Facebook’s parent company, to sell Giphy – a Gif-sharing search engine Co-founder and CEO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, steps down as chief executive of the company A virtual yacht sells for $650,000 (£490,000) inside building…

A lack of trained doctors, nurses and support staff is affecting the ability of large scale hospitals to cope with the coronavirus pandemic, a doctor treating coronavirus patients in the state of Gujarat has said. Dr Devashish Palkar, who is in his final year of training to be a psychiatrist told BBC World News that…

Legendary anchor Katty Kay signs off from the BBC for the final time.

The passing of sweeping changes to Hong Kong’s electoral rules will mean prospective MPs will have to go through a degrading and humiliating process, the former Democratic Party chairperson and legislator Emily Lau has said. Hong Kong does not have democracy but they had a system which allowed people to be free, safe and have…

Nine Catalan separatists convicted over a failed independence bid in 2017 have been formally pardoned by the Spanish government. President of the government of Catalonia, Pere Aragonès, told BBC World News that the priority now was to have an agreed referendum as this was the best way to achieve independence. In Spain tens of thousands…

LJ Rich looks at the best of the week’s technology news stories including: The FBI is investigating thousands of fake emails sent from one of its own servers Apple will now let users repair their own phones – selling the tools and parts required for some of the more common fixes DogPhone – a toy…