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

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is working relentlessly with the health ministry and other countries to tackle oxygen shortages, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national spokesperson Shaina Nana Chudasama has said. “It is most unfortunate that we have lost lives and nobody expected this double mutant [coronavirus] to shape up in this particular way,” she…

BBC Click’s Romana Kreider looks at the best technology news stories of the week including: Google is fined €500m (£427m) by France’s competition authority for not negotiating “in good faith” with news organisations over their use of content. Google has told the BBC the decision “ignores our efforts to reach an agreement” One of the…

The advance of the Taliban across Afghanistan represents a betrayal and catastrophic failure by the US, UK and Nato, says Rory Stewart, a former UK International Development Secretary. He told BBC World News that Western involvement in Afghanistan had involved around 2,500 troops supporting Afghan forces and air support. That support had confined the Taliban…

The Oprah Winfrey interview with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex has helped put republicanism back on the agenda in Australia, the historian and biographer Prof Jenny Hocking has said. She told BBC World News: “The interview has really shown us once again just how out of touch the monarchy is with Australian values and…

BBC Click’s LJ Rich looks at some of the week’s best technology stories.

There are some hard and difficult lessons to be learned about the recent events in Afghanistan, Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has said. It was a tragedy that the Afghan security forces collapsed so quickly, Mr Stoltenberg told BBC World News. He blamed a lack of leadership and logistics from the Afghan government, rather than…