My Pick of the Week
Fake news a democratic crisis for UK, MPs warn (« The social media ads that were seen used by Donald Trump and the Leave campaign are the most lethal political weapons ever invented« )
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44967650
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Facebook bans pages aimed at US election interference
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-45018516
China fossil tells new supercontinent story
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-44937812
Europe
Migration to Europe – in charts
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-44660699
France shocked by video of woman being slapped by harasser
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45005069
Slobodan Milosevic: Ex-Serbia leader’s war crimes lawyer shot dead
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-44995906
America
US release of 3D-printed gun software blocked
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45027237
Why Donald Trump attacks the media
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45001525
US religion: the Christian right is breaking up (Let us pray for that)
Florida paramedics ‘racially profiled’ dying woman
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45009078
World
Fast fashion: Inside the fight to end the silence on waste
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-44968561
HEALTH
Why do women donate more organs than men?
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20180730-why-more-women-donate-organs-than-men
Why suntan lotions don’t work for most (because they don’t apply enough)
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-44936124
EDUCATION & FAMILY
The African invention school inspired by bike parts
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-44553215
CULTURE (including LANGUAGE)
Is the ‘French fry’ in fact BELGIAN?
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20180730-can-belgium-claim-ownership-of-the-french-fry
The cost of keeping endangered languages alive (“one of the biggest factors to blame for killing off minority languages is a thriving economy”)
http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20180731-can-27m-a-year-bring-a-language-back-from-near-death
Facebook bans Flemish paintings because of nudity
https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-44925656
TRAVEL
France’s fight over chocolate pastry (chocolatine or pain au chocolat? French with English subtitles)
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20180723-whats-in-a-name-frances-fight-over-chocolate-pastry
MISCELLANEOUS
Eleven years old and locked up (separated from his family – USA)
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-44980323/long-watch-eleven-years-old-and-locked-up