The winner of this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature says he thought the phone call telling him he’d won was a cold caller.
Luckily, Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah was persuaded not to hang up.
Speaking to the BBC’s Ros Atkins, he says he was making a cup of tea when the phone rang, telling the caller: “Come on, get out of here! Leave me alone.”
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The much-anticipated third season of Call of Duty: Warzone has been released, resetting the title to a 1980s-based storyline. Publisher Activision recently revealed that the online game had attracted more than 100 million players. BBC Click’s Marc Cieslak spoke exclusively to Rob Kostich, the firm’s president, about keeping those players interested in the free-to-play first-person…
Wenatchee High School in Washington state wanted a way to allow students to rehearse safely during the pandemic – and they came up with a creative solution. Principal Eric Anderson said the tents may be small, but they are allowing band members to play together again.
The evacuation flights out of Afghanistan may have largely stopped, but with international funding largely frozen, and a humanitarian crisis escalating, thousands are still desperate to find a way out. The remote town of Zaranj, close to the borders of both Pakistan and Iran, is a major people smuggling hub. Traffickers there told BBC Afghanistan…
Every country should try to have a “price on carbon”, the UK prime minister’s finance adviser for COP26 has said. The former Bank of England governor, Mark Carney, told the BBC’s Christian Fraser that although a global carbon price would be the best option, carbon taxes would probably have to be related to a country’s…
BBC Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen meets terrified families running from civil war in Yemen.
Ahead of this week’s elections many opposition candidates have been prevented from running.
