'We try to live': Four years behind bars in Turkey

President Ashraf Ghani was “gutless” to flee Afghanistan as the Taliban advanced to take power, the former Afghan MP Elay Ershad has said. She told BBC World News: “He left his people behind and he left his country behind. He could have stayed. I am so angry I don’t have words to explain it.” Mr…

The depth of anxiety many young people feel about climate change is illustrated by a global survey. Its lead author, Caroline Hickman, from Bath University, told BBC World News half of young people feared humanity was doomed. “What was news to us was the scale of that fear – two-thirds feeling sad, afraid and anxious…

Economic development advocate Asmaa AbuMezied, who lives in the Gaza Strip, has told BBC World News about her experiences of the Israel-Gaza conflict. “We have to navigate throughout the day how we are going to deal with the drones that hover over our houses,” she said. “And then, when the night comes, we have to…

Everyone in the Simon family contracted Covid-19, but nine-year-old daughter Makenna went to hospital.

The Now Play This festival was a virtual event this year with a focus on games which looked at the environmental issues the world is facing. Games included exploring a deserted Venice in the year 2089 and creating and maintaining a lake and the ecosystem around it, Cristina Criddle found out more for BBC Click….

Sweeping changes to Hong Kong’s electoral rules were “not a good sign” and have turned democratic progress “back to square one”, Lo Kin-hei of the Democratic Party said. “These kind of changes… made today is turning Hong Kong back for 20-odd years. “In the past 20 years there was some sort of progress in the…