My Pick of the Week
A Psychologist’s View: Why Do They Hate Hillary So Much? (and it’s not just dumb Yanks)
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/bryant-welch/why-do-they-hate-hillary-_b_12720840.html
Middle East
Iran’s hijab protests: The Girls of Revolution Street
FRANCE & Europe
Salah Abdeslam: 5 things about Paris attacks suspect
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42918831
Paris – suspected anti-Semitic attack on schoolboy
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42880565
UK, USA & Canada
Remove hard Brexiteers (Hear, hear!) ex-minister Anna Soubry tells Theresa May
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-42955553
Trump wants a US version of Bastille Day military parades (missed his military service for mysterious reasons)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42969566
Trade barriers ‘unavoidable’ outside customs union, says EU’s Barnier
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-42945605
Seven Trump claims* fact-checked (*in his State of the Union address)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42883608
BUSINESS & ECONOMY
Why are stock markets falling?
http://www.bbc.com/news/av/business-42961633/why-are-stock-markets-falling
Bitcoin puzzle (devinette) worth $50,000 solved after nearly three years
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-42944290
How IKEA has changed the way we shop (they call it, “the IKEA effect”)
http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20180201-how-ikea-has-changed-the-way-weshop
HEALTH
Trump: NHS ‘going broke and not working’ (He never stops, does he?)
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-42943768
Blood test finds toxic Alzheimer’s proteins
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-42878721
Brain ‘pacemaker’ for Alzheimer’s
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-42857576
SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY & ENVIRONMENT
Elon Musk’s Falcon Heavy rocket launches successfully
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-42969020
The chameleon the size of an ant (enjoy the David Attenborough clip & commentary)
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170703-the-chameleon-the-size-of-an-ant
Battling to save the world’s bananas (I don’t want to worry you, but…)
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-42777803
Super blue blood moon: Get ready for a rare celestial show
TRAVEL
North Korea launches ‘exclusive’ new beer (Did YOU know there’s a beer festival in NK?)
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-42959525
MISCELLANEOUS
10 things conservative Christians got horribly wrong (from pro-slavery to anti-same sex marriage)
https://www.salon.com/2013/11/09/10_things_conservative_christians_got_horribly_wrong_partner/
‘Reindeer rebellion’ in central Finland
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-42960156
CAMFED – keeping girls in education, breaking the poverty cycle
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-42794898
SLEEPCINEMAHOTEL: Where they want you to fall asleep