Malcolm Turnbull: Australia ex-PM says vaccine rollout 'a colossal failure'

When DC Films’ Justice League was in post-production back in 2017, its director, Zack Snyder, had to stand down from the project for personal reasons. The film was completed, but with significant changes from Snyder’s original version, and it received almost universally bad reviews. Fans launched a massive internet campaign for Snyder’s version of the…

A Malian woman has recently given birth to nine babies – five girls and four boys at a clinic in Casablanca, Morocco. The nonuplets will have to spend “two to three months” in incubators, a director of the clinic has said, but both the mother, Halima Cissé, and her children are said to be doing…

Vintage petrol-powered Bentleys and Rolls-Royce cars are being re-engineered to fully electric vehicles by a company based at Silverstone, the home of UK motorsport. In a world-first, Lunaz adapts the cars in a process which takes about 26 weeks and starts at £350,000 ($478,000, 405,000 euros). BBC Click’s Jen Copestake finds out more. See more…

Younger people may be offered alternative vaccines to the AstraZeneca jab, says Prof Paul Hunter.

The 2021 Oscar nominations are the most diverse Oscars ever, with nine of the 20 acting nominees from non-white backgrounds. And two women were nominated for best director – the first time more than one woman has been shortlisted for that prize in the awards’ 93-year history. Anna Smith, a film critic and host of…

A virtual summit of 40 world leaders is discussing ways of fulfilling the 2015 Paris climate agreement. US President Biden has pledged to cut carbon emissions by 50-52% below 2005 levels by the end of this decade. Speaking ahead of the summit, Prof Lord Nicholas Stern told BBC World News that it was important that…