Today at E3: Politics, polygons and palm trees
Avatar, Rabbids and an alien infection – Marc Cieslak runs us through the first day of E3.
It is a 100 days before the 2021 Olympics begins in Tokyo and athletes all over the world are back in training. Marathon runner Stephanie Davis, who will be competing in the Games for the first time, told BBC World News that she was really grateful that the Olympics was going ahead after it was…
BBC Click’s Romana Kreider looks at the best technology news stories of the week including: Google is fined €500m (£427m) by France’s competition authority for not negotiating “in good faith” with news organisations over their use of content. Google has told the BBC the decision “ignores our efforts to reach an agreement” One of the…
There is a lot of support for Donald Trump to become a future kingmaker, Greg Swenson, of Republicans Overseas UK, says. The former president made his first major speech since leaving office, at the Conservative Political Action Conference, in Florida, over the weekend, hinting he might run again. Mr Swenson told BBC World News Mr…
The sentencing of seven of Hong Kong’s most prominent pro-democracy campaigners for unlawful assembly will send a message not just to Hong Kong, but to Beijing and the rest of the world about whether there is still an independent judiciary, the former Democratic Party chairperson and legislator Emily Lau has said. “We would like to…
More than 6,500 pupils from across the UK took part in the CyberFirst Girls competition.
Covid vaccines are less effective against the variant of the virus identified in India, research has shown. But they would still prevent very seriously illness, University of Cambridge microbiologist Prof Ravindra Gupta said. He told BBC World News: “The virus can potentially infect people who have already been vaccinated, albeit with reduced severity – so…