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

Vishal Garg, the boss of US mortage firm Better.com, fires about 900 of his staff on a single Zoom call.

At least 45 people were killed and some 150 were injured in a crush at a crowded Orthodox Jewish festival in Israel. The Lag B’Omer festival near Mount Meron had attracted tens of thousands of pilgrims. Eyewitness Menachem Engel, who was attending the festival, said he was about 100m away from where the incident happened….

A Taliban spokesman has been asked if women and ethnic minorities will have a place in the new Afghan government. In an interview with BBC Pashto, the deputy head of the Taliban political office in Qatar said women could continue in their work but in the top posts or cabinet there “may not” be a…

European Parliament vice-president Nicola Beer says heads of state must turn the EU summit on boosting vaccine supplies and distribution into a global response to the coronavirus pandemic. She told BBC World News the EU should join forces with global leaders, including UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson. A vaccine export ban would result in a…

The president of the Australian Medical Association has spoken of his disappointment at Italy’s decision to block the export of 250,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine to the country. Dr Omar Khorshid told BBC World News the country would soon be in a position to manufacture the vaccine itself but for now was dependent on…

Nasa has said it will send two missions to Venus at the end of the decade in order to examine the planet’s atmosphere and geological features. Dhara Patel, an astronomer at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich told BBC World News on Thursday that the missions could shed light on why Venus, which had very similar…