Thirty years of BBC World News
BBC World News looks back at the last three decades as it celebrates its 30th anniversary.
A doctor working in a rural area of India’s Maharashtra state has spoken about the many challenges of treating people during the coronavirus pandemic. Many people are living below the poverty line and there are difficulties around accessing basic healthcare and a mistrust of modern medicine, Dr Ashita Rebecca Singh told BBC World News. India…
LJ Rich looks at some of the best technology news stories of the week including: Royal Mail announces a trial of autonomous drones to deliver packages remotely from the mainland UK to the Isles of Scilly Tesla suspends the option to purchase its vehicles using Bitcoin due to climate change concerns, its CEO Elon Musk…
Several European countries have paused the use of a coronavirus vaccine over the safety concerns, but delays to the rollout of coronavirus vaccine programmes will have an economic fallout, a professor of economics at Koç University, has said. When there is a slowdown in vaccination programmes people who are not immunised will need to minimise…
This video contains spoilers. Netflix’s The Midnight Sky, starring George Clooney, Felicity Jones and David Oyelowo has been nominated for a best visual effects Oscar. Framestore’s VFX supervisor Chris Lawrence told BBC Click how the film’s effects were made. See more at Click’s website and @BBCClick
The discussion about pornography and sex needs to be brought out into the mainstream, the adult film director Erika Lust has said. She told BBC Hardtalk that whether we like it or not porn had become sex education and so it was very important for parents and educators to talk to younger generations and explain…
After a journey of about seven months Nasa’s Perseverance rover landed on Mars last Thursday. Designed to look for signs of past microbial life, the rover has been sending back stunning images of the Red planet. But those who watched the rover’s descent onto the Martian surface may have spotted a coded message on the…