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

Music group Duran Duran decided to collaborate with artificial intelligence (AI) software to create their new music video, Invisible. But what would the band, which has sold over 100 million records and has been performing for five decades, make of the finished product? BBC Click’s Lara Lewington speaks to Nick Rhodes to find out more….

India has seen more Covid cases in the last seven days than any other country as it battles its second wave. Hospitals have been overwhelmed with relatives begging for beds and oxygen for loved ones – now crematoriums are also running out of space. One man who lost his wife and unborn child on the…

Sweeping changes to Hong Kong’s electoral rules were “not a good sign” and have turned democratic progress “back to square one”, Lo Kin-hei of the Democratic Party said. “These kind of changes… made today is turning Hong Kong back for 20-odd years. “In the past 20 years there was some sort of progress in the…

As Covid cases among children in the US rise dramatically, a doctor is calling for them to be prioritised for the vaccine over many adults who are due a third jab. Dr Paul Offit, of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and a member of the US Food and Drug Administration’s vaccine advisory board, said all…

Western governments will face difficult questions about whether to support Afghanistan if the Taliban seize control in a way that is illegitimate, the UK Chief of Defence Staff Gen Sir Nick Carter has said. But he told BBC World News that if the Taliban did take control of the country he did not believe they…

Lara Lewington looks at some of the latest gadgets to help make the most of your summer.