Maria Ressa

Regular and strenuous exercise increases the risk of motor neurone disease (MND) in people who are genetically vulnerable, scientists have said. One of the researchers at the University of Sheffield, Dr Johnathan Cooper-Knock, told BBC World News that in the future they hoped to be able to work out the risk on an individual basis…

Commemorations have taken place on the 20th anniversary of the 11 September attacks. A minute’s silence was held at the exact time each hijacked plane crashed. George W Bush, who was the US president at the time, gave a speech in Pennsylvania, where one of the planes crashed into a field after passengers overpowered the…

A sharp rise in Covid Delta variant cases in Israel shows the need for caution when ending restrictions, says Dr Asher Salmon, deputy director general of the country’s Ministry of Health. Israel had led the way with its vaccine programme, and was able to lift many restrictions, but there is now a surge in new…

BBC Click’s LJ Rich looks at the best of the week’s technology news stories including: Microsoft launches its latest operating system, Windows 11, as a free upgrade for Windows 10 users Star Trek actor William Shatner will go into space with Jeff Bezos’s space travel company Blue Origin A robotic arm which can recognise and…

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…

There is no end in sight to the violent crackdown by the military against protesters in Myanmar, political analyst and journalist Annie Zaman has said. “What we are witnessing is that people are standing alone, they don’t have weapons, they are not as strong as the military,” she told BBC World News. Following the 1…