Should our DNA dictate what we eat?
Companies are offering dietary advice based on customers’ propensity for certain heath conditions.
Prince Albert II of Monaco – one of the world’s richest royals – has weighed in on the controversial interview that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle gave to Oprah Winfrey. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex had opened up to the US interviewer about a range of personal topics, including racism and mental health. But…
The Israeli-Gaza conflict can be ended if Hama stops firing rockets, Jerusalem’s deputy mayor Fleur Hassan-Nahoum has said. She told BBC World News on Thursday that Hamas had been looking for a war for some time: “They have been planning this for months. The Palestinian Authority are trying to distract people from cancelling an election.”…
Australia’s Phillip Island is home to the largest colony of little penguins on the planet. Ten of the birds were fitted with trackers measuring GPS, water temperature and the depth the penguins are feeding at during the breeding season. BBC Click finds out more. See more at Click’s website and @BBCClick
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…
Covid vaccines are less effective against the variant of the virus identified in India, research has shown. But they would still prevent very seriously illness, University of Cambridge microbiologist Prof Ravindra Gupta said. He told BBC World News: “The virus can potentially infect people who have already been vaccinated, albeit with reduced severity – so…
BBC Click’s Romana Kreider looks at the best technology news stories of the week including: Elon Musk announced that his satellite internet service Starlink could reach half a million customers over the coming year. MIT and Harvard engineers designed a face mask that can diagnose Covid-19 within about 90 minutes. Boston Dynamics’ robot dog Spot…