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Ros Atkins look at how India is trying to balance banishing poverty with meeting its climate commitments. More on the climate summit The COP26 global climate summit in Glasgow in November is seen as crucial if climate change is to be brought under control. Almost 200 countries are being asked for their plans to cut…

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…

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….

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…

Myanmar’s UN envoy, appointed by the disbanded parliament, says the world needs to co-ordinate its action against Myanmar’s military dictatorship. “It has to be targeted sanctions. It has to be tougher sanctions. There is no coordination. There is no targeting,” Dr Sasa told BBC World News. Dr Sasa fled Myanmar, also known as Burma, on…

A commercial laser cutter has been transformed from a 2D machine to a 3D all-in-one assembler capable of creating devices which can fly straight off the factory line. LaserFactory is designed to create functional devices and robots, Martin Nisser, PhD student at MIT CSAIL said. “We wanted to be able to fabricate something which required…