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)

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/13/the-guardian-view-on-us-religion-the-christian-right-is-breaking-up

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

BBC (etc.) website articles week 31 2018 – Last before September
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