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

http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-middle-east-42954970/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

http://www.bbc.com/news/av/science-environment-42879001/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

http://www.bbc.com/news/av/entertainment-arts-42905498/sleepcinemahotel-where-they-want-you-to-fall-asleep

BBC (etc.) website articles week 6 2018
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