My Pick of the Week

I went undercover in the alt-right

http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-43131290

WORLD NEWS

US aircraft carrier Carl Vinson in historic Vietnam visit

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-43282558

Burkina Faso attack: French embassy targeted in Ouagadougou

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-43257453

Clowns bring joy to refugee children (it’s important)

http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-43227061/clowns-bring-joy-to-refugee-children

FRANCE & Europe

France to fix legal age of sexual consent as 15

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43300313

Italy general election vote: Who’s who and why it matters

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43209525

Why English courts are opening in the EU

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-42979920

UK, USA & Canada

Russian spy: Boris Johnson warns Kremlin over Salisbury incident (defector & daughter fall mysteriously ill)

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-43303651

Trump steps up war of words on trade with threat to tax EU cars

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43270388

Steel tariffs – what impact will they really have?

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-43251335

US gun control

State lawmakers pass gun control measures (a little – better than nothing)

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43298384

Guns banned on dating app Bumble (so much for Guns & Roses)

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43301733

Dick’s Sporting Goods pulls assault-style rifles as Florida students return

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43223279

Four key dates that shaped the US gun debate

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42055871

BUSINESS & ECONOMY

US investment giant pressures gun firms

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43268446

HEALTH

Britain needs to go on a diet

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-43201586

Diabetes is actually five separate diseases, research suggests

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-43246261

Sport

The story of women’s football in 10 objects

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-43139535

EDUCATION & FAMILY

A different portrait of black fatherhood (a nice bit of “feel-good”)

http://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-43159310

SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY & ENVIRONMENT

Fancy charging up your electric car in 10 minutes?

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-43285885

AutoSaw: Robot carpenter makes custom furniture

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43251669

How humans echolocate ‘like bats’ (I read this as “e-chocolate” before reading the article)

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-43173613

CULTURE (including LANGUAGE)

Notre-Dame: Cracks in the cathedral

http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-43258266/notre-dame-cracks-in-the-cathedral

Six, deaf and going to the Oscars

http://www.bbc.com/news/av/entertainment-arts-43245738/six-deaf-and-going-to-the-oscars

Test your accent in English. Maybe you sound “West London” (like me & Hugh Grant)

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20180205-which-british-accent-is-closest-to-your-own

MISCELLANEOUS

Yusuf, 14, aims to be first US Muslim president (He’s serious!)

http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-43292207/yusuf-14-aims-to-be-first-us-muslim-president

Panama hotel removes Trump branding after court battle

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-43297902

Japanese electric toilet symbols go global

http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-43224316

Trump Nobel Peace Prize nomination probed amid fakery concerns

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43225074

Pregnant Frenchwoman fined for walking wrong way

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43272326

 

 

BBC (etc.) website articles week 10 2018
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