The children of IS: 'It's a disaster we cannot deal with'

There are a huge hidden number of coronavirus cases in rural India, the director of the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy, Dr Ramanan Laxminarayan has said. The majority of India’s population live in rural areas where there are few medical facilities, he told BBC World News. “You won’t see long lines outside hospitals…

World Health Organization (WHO) special envoy on Covid-19, Dr David Nabarro, has called on G7 leaders to take responsibility, “beyond positioning”, and form a worldwide coronavirus response programme. The issue needs to be dealt with as a global challenge, Dr Nabarro told BBC World News, with a adequate finance, vaccines, diagnostics, treatment and political support….

The supermodel and businesswoman Naomi Campbell has spoken of her sorrow over the rift between the Dukes of Cambridge and Sussex. She told Hardtalk‘s Zeinab Badawi she was sad to watch the Oprah Winfrey interview with Harry and Meghan earlier this year. “For me knowing Princess Diana, to see that her two boys were not…

Adele Raemer, who lives in a kibbutz in southern Israel, has told BBC World News about her experiences of the Israel-Gaza conflict. She was exhausted from running back and forth to her “safe room”, she said. And the sounds of rocket alerts and artillery were keeping her awake. “This is not something anybody could or…

The 2021 Oscar nominations are the most diverse Oscars ever, with nine of the 20 acting nominees from non-white backgrounds. And two women were nominated for best director – the first time more than one woman has been shortlisted for that prize in the awards’ 93-year history. Anna Smith, a film critic and host of…

Long-time democracy campaigner and Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov has said he is very concerned for the health of Alexei Navalny who is three weeks into a prison hunger strike. He told BBC World News: “We understand that the West cannot save Navalny, but it can seal his fate by simply ignoring him.” It was…