US gun control: ‘Not enough support to overcome division’

Journalist Maria Ressa emphasised the importance of facts in journalism, after winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Speaking to the website she co-founded, Rappler, she said :”When you don’t have facts, you don’t have truth, you don’t have trust”. Ms Ressa was one of two winners of this year’s prize, for using her platform to “expose…

BBC Click’s Jen Copestake looks at the best technology news stories of the week including: Amazon opens its fifth till-less, “just walk out” grocery store in London’s Chalk Farm neighbourhood An autonomous artificially intelligent ship, the Mayflower 400, sets sail across the Atlantic ocean The Young Voices choir becomes the largest group of children to…

More than 2,000 old and iconic mobile phones are being showcased in a new online museum. The Mobile Phone Museum was set up by industry analyst Ben Wood who had collected thousands of phones as a hobby. BBC Click’s Chris Fox went to the launch event in London and went hands-on with some of the…

Australia’s vaccination rollout has really picked up in recent months, partly due to Covid outbreaks in Sydney and Melbourne. But in remote areas hardly touched by the virus, it’s often a different story. Australia’s famous Royal Flying Doctor Service is part of a huge logistical effort to get jabs in arms. The BBC joined them…

Indonesian president Joko Widodo has spoken of his country’s struggle with the pandemic earlier this year, describing how hospitals and facilities could not cope. Speaking exclusively to the BBC’s Asia presenter Karishma Vaswani, Mr Widodo said that the situation in the country had greatly improved and steps were being taken to address discrepancies in facilities…

As Germany prepares to go to the polls, the BBC speaks to some of the youngest candidates standing.