Today at E3: Politics, polygons and palm trees
Avatar, Rabbids and an alien infection – Marc Cieslak runs us through the first day of E3.
The latest James Bond film, No Time To Die, was delayed due to Covid three separate times. The stars of the movie are finally hitting the red carpet at the Royal Albert Hall in London on Tuesday evening. Daniel Craig, in the titular role of James Bond, spoke to the BBC’s Lizo Mzimba.
Vishal Garg, the boss of US mortage firm Better.com, fires about 900 of his staff on a single Zoom call.
The Nobel Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai is urging the Taliban to lift their ban on girls’ education in Afghanistan. The Pakistani activist for female education told BBC World News the current temporary ban might last for years. She said: “It happened a month ago they announced explicitly that boys can go to their schools. So…
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…
Australia’s state of New South Wales has passed its 70% vaccination target, resulting in Sydney easing its 107-day lockdown. Non-essential shops, restaurants, bars, hair and beauty salons have reopened after being forced shut for almost four months. Patrons lined up across the city for the midnight reopening, excited to enjoy their new freedoms. Video by…
British supermodel Naomi Campbell has spoken about being a first-time mother. In an exclusive interview with BBC HARDtalk, she told Zeinab Badawi: “I’m really lucky, I think I have a dream child.” Ms Campbell, 51, made the surprise announcement in May, and said she hoped her daughter would follow her example of being a strong…