Pakistan: 'Lessons learnt to stop post-Eid Covid surge'

Watch our exclusive interview with the CEO of Pfizer Albert Bourla, as he hits out at the “rubbish” that has been published about him and his wife – including a fake story that she had died from the vaccine. Speaking to the BBC’s medical editor Fergus Walsh, Mr Bourla also defends the billions of dollars…

A military ceremony has been held in honour of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who is due to step down next week after 16 years in office. Mrs Merkel chose three pieces of music – one of which raised a few eyebrows. She chose a popular song by Hildegard Knef called For Me It Should Rain…

BBC Click’s LJ Rich looks at the best tech news stories of the week including: Apple unveiled new iPhone 13 handsets which come with Cinematic Mode, a portrait-style option for shooting videos with depth of field. TikTok launched a range of mental health features, with some support resources linked to the search term “suicide”. Australian…

The Indian government has left individual states in the country to deal with the Covid-19 “tsunami” of infections on their own, Pawan Khera of the opposition National Congress Party said. He told BBC World News that during the first wave the government had carried out a centralised response and had “an obsession” with “premature credit…

BBC Click’s LJ Rich looks at some of the best technology news stories of the week including: Apple unveils a new iPad and colourful iMacs containing its new M1 chip Instagram says it will let users filter out abusive messages using a new tool Software which helps scientists quickly develop DNA-based structures complete with rotors…

As the band release Voyage, Benny and Bjorn speak to the BBC about being compared to their old music.