'UN intervention needed over Myanmar'

UK online grocery retailer Ocado has been expanding its operations during the coronavirus pandemic. The company’s largest warehouse opened in 2018 and has 2,400 robots which pick orders from a range of 50,000 products. But they are also developing robots to work in other areas too including machines designed to collaborate with human workers to…

It was Elena Blasser’s dream to live near the beach. It came true a decade ago when she moved in to Champlain Towers South. Now, with the partial collapse of the building, her son Pablo Rodríguez has lost hope that his mother and grandmother are still alive – and he wants answers. Video by Angélica…

Deaths from opioid use in the US have skyrocketed over the last year. Provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed that 88,000 people had died from drug overdoses in the 12 month period ending in August 2020 – an increase of 27% on the previous year. The US authorities say…

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is working relentlessly with the health ministry and other countries to tackle oxygen shortages, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national spokesperson Shaina Nana Chudasama has said. “It is most unfortunate that we have lost lives and nobody expected this double mutant [coronavirus] to shape up in this particular way,” she…

BBC Click’s LJ Rich looks at some of the week’s best technology stories.

The environmental impact of plastic is resulting in the creation of new ways to reduce its impact through the use of deposit schemes and the development of alternative packaging materials. BBC Click’s Lara Lewington finds out more. See more at Click’s website and @BBCClick