Poland border crisis: Scene of chaos as soldiers deploy water cannon

Western countries with higher rates of obesity are seeing more deaths from coronavirus than Asian countries with less obesity, the World Obesity Federation’s Dr Olivia Cavalcanti has said. She told BBC World News it was not clear why overweight people were more at risk, but could be due to an inflammatory response of the body….

The international community has made a good start in tackling climate change, says Prof Dr Niklas Höhne of the New Climate Institute. But he told BBC World News more still needed to be done and China was still cautious with its commitments. He said: “The developed countries need to go first and I think they…

Swansea University’s Active Building Centre is a place that powers itself using some of the latest innovations in solar energy. New designs of solar panels are being developed from ones which can be unrolled to ones which can be printed. It means the structure of the buildings could also be changed. BBC Click’s Lara Lewington…

“Long Covid” is affecting a significant number of people in the UK, Dr Deepti Gurdasani, a clinical epidemiologist has said. She told BBC World News that long Covid was not just limited to patients who were very ill or hospitalised. About 13% of people with just mild symptoms went on to develop long Covid with…

Protests, in Myanmar, also known as Burma, must continue until there is democracy and freedom, Hannah says. She told BBC World News many of the protesters were aged just 17 or 18. “I am scared,” she said. “But we still have to fight for the democracy we want. “Me and my fellow protesters will fight…

Ransomware hackers are now focusing on large supply chains to hit the public, the director of Cyber Threat Research at Immersive Labs has said. Kevin Breen told BBC World News it was too early to identify the source of a cyber attack on JBS, the world’s largest meat processing company. He said: “The attackers are…