Summer holidays: Testing, quarantine and 'vacci-cations'

His Royal Highness Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, lived most of his long life in the public eye. Born a European prince, he became the husband and vital support to one of the most famous women in the world. In the process he carved a leading role of his own in Britain and the world.

Economic development advocate Asmaa AbuMezied, who lives in the Gaza Strip, has told BBC World News about her experiences of the Israel-Gaza conflict. “We have to navigate throughout the day how we are going to deal with the drones that hover over our houses,” she said. “And then, when the night comes, we have to…

While there has been much attention on Afghans being evacuated at Kabul airport, it was important to remember there were more than 500,000 internally displaced people in the country, the UN refugee agency’s representative to Afghanistan has said. Caroline Van Buren told BBC World News that the country was facing a humanitarian crisis. Failure to…

A lack of power and funding has limited the World Health Organization’s (WHO) capacity to deal with pandemics, the co-chair of a panel looking at the response to the coronavirus pandemic has said. Helen Clark, from the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response, told BBC World News that the WHO was caught in the…

A sea life centre has created a web app to help visitors identify species within its 65,000 strong marine life population. The Lost Chambers Aquarium app uses image recognition. The app tells users information about where the animal can be found in the wild, its endangered status and planned or ongoing conservation projects. BBC Click’s…

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…