‘There were no avatars like me so we made a game’

As the Taliban advance there are feelings of grief and fear, a child rights activist in Kabul says.

They were labelled “LGBT-free zones” – large parts of Poland where regional governments, as well as smaller councils, declared they were against LGBT ideology or ideologies that “undermine” the family. Now provinces have started to backtrack after the EU said it would freeze funds. But has anything really changed for LGBT people in those areas?…

The Delta variant of Covid-19 is spreading rapidly throughout the world and has been detected in 124 territories the World Health Organisation has said. An emergency room doctor in the United States has told BBC World News about how the initial narrative of it being a virus which kills older people is now problematic as…

Australia is one of the countries already seeing an increase in the number of extremely hot days because of climate change, with places like Sydney experiencing temperatures around 50C. The intense heat has led to unusually strong bushfires and some indigenous species dying en masse. As the BBC’s Life at 50 degrees season continues, this…

Auction house Christie’s New York recently sold a digital-only artwork by the artist known as Beeple for $69m (£50m). The artwork was sold as a non-fungible-token (NFT) which uses blockchain technology to create a unique digital certificate which states who owns it. It is part of a wider trend which has seen an animated Gif…

A new dating app called POM (Power of Music) is matching couples by analysing the music they listen to on their phones. More than 25,000 people have already downloaded the app, which launched this summer, and the start-up has gained £1.5m in investment. Produced, filmed and edited by Dougal Shaw