'UN intervention needed over Myanmar'

Companies are offering dietary advice based on customers’ propensity for certain heath conditions.

The UN Security Council and international communities, particularly those in the region, need to do more to bring the Taliban back to peace talks, the chair of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission has said. Shaharzad Akbar told BBC World News that countries within the region in particular needed to tell the Taliban that coming…

A ransomware attack on the US Colonial Pipeline was not a surprise, as experts have been warning of increased attacks, Oxford Information Labs chief executive Emily Taylor has said. She told BBC World News: “Experts have been warning about increased rates of ransomware attacks and also the vulnerability of critical infrastructure such as this pipeline…

Watch our exclusive interview with the CEO of Pfizer Albert Bourla, as he hits out at the “rubbish” that has been published about him and his wife – including a fake story that she had died from the vaccine. Speaking to the BBC’s medical editor Fergus Walsh, Mr Bourla also defends the billions of dollars…

Violence in the Israel-Gaza conflict was instigated by Hamas, a global Jewish advocacy group which supports Israel has said. The American Jewish Committee spokesman Avi Mayer told BBC World News: “It is Hamas that has instigated this violence weeks ago and just this past weekend called on Palestinians in Jerusalem to acquire knives and behead…

A former colonel describes a leadership making cash by any means, from drug factories to illegal arms deals.