Thirty years of BBC World News
BBC World News looks back at the last three decades as it celebrates its 30th anniversary.
The charity Save the Children is calling for an immediate de-escalation of the Israel-Gaza conflict. In Jerusalem Save the Children’s Jason Lee told BBC World News: “In every conflict or escalation today we see that children are disproportionately affected… “We have numbers of children being killed, maimed. This cycle will continue unless we take immediate…
Huawei has revealed the third iteration of its folding smartphone, abandoning its previous designs and taking some inspiration from Samsung. This time, the folding display on the Mate X2 is protected inside the phone. BBC Click’s Chris Fox went hands-on with the phone and described it as the best folding phone so far – but…
A recent poll in the UK revealed there was a high level of support among managers for making Covid-19 vaccines mandatory for staff returning to work. The survey of more than 1,000 managers, conducted by the Chartered Management Institute, showed that about half think office access should be restricted for those who refused to get…
Non-fungible-tokens (NFTs) use blockchain technology to create a unique digital certificate or token which states who owns a virtual or physical item. They have been used to sell digital art, memes, a tweet and digital trading cards, but could they also be used to purchase homes? BBC Click’s Lara Lewington finds out more. See more…
European countries pausing use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 jab were risking the lives of their citizens and “throwing caution to the wind”, Dr Anthony Cox, who researches drug safety at the University of Birmingham has said. He told BBC World News: “What we seem to have had is like a cascade of bad decision making…
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…