Thirty years of BBC World News

People in Zimbabwe are living at the very edge of survival, the writer Tsitsi Dangarembga, has said. She told BBC Hardtalk that young girls are engaging in transactional sex just to be able to eat. “We no longer look at each as co-nationals, as people who have a common history and should be constructing a…

CornerShop is a London-based concept store which aims to test a range of different retail technologies with real customers. Shoppers will be able to use their smartphone to help them either pre-select items or purchase products based on their own preferences such as dietary requirements. There are also options to try on clothing using a…

Australia’s vaccination rollout has really picked up in recent months, partly due to Covid outbreaks in Sydney and Melbourne. But in remote areas hardly touched by the virus, it’s often a different story. Australia’s famous Royal Flying Doctor Service is part of a huge logistical effort to get jabs in arms. The BBC joined them…

The first emergency international assistance aimed at helping stem India’s devastating coronavirus surge arrived in India on Tuesday. But while this was a positive move, solidarity among countries needs to be a continuous thing and not just in times of crisis, the World Health Organization’s Dr Margaret Harris told BBC World News. “It would be…

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

The winner of this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature says he thought the phone call telling him he’d won was a cold caller. Luckily, Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah was persuaded not to hang up. Speaking to the BBC’s Ros Atkins, he says he was making a cup of tea when the phone rang, telling the…