My Pick of the Week

Gun Control Whoop-de-doo (John Oliver interviews an opponent of gun control who inadvertently admits fewer guns = fewer gun deaths): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pOiOhxujsE

WORLD NEWS

N Korea ‘providing materials to Syria chemical weapons factories’

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-43219614

FRANCE & Europe

How France hopes to help radicals escape jihadist net

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43215027

Johnny Hallyday estate: Bardot wades into France family row

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43182858

UK, USA & Canada

Florida shooting

School threats spike ‘significantly’

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43190511

The NRA Encouraged People to Buy Guns for Valentine’s Day

http://fortune.com/2018/02/15/nra-valentines-day-guns-florida-shooting/

Firms abandon NRA amid consumer boycott

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-43173753

Trump endorses guns for teachers to stop shootings (Why are we NOT surprised?)

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43149694

BUSINESS & ECONOMY

How rich are the rich? If only you knew!

http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20180223-how-rich-are-the-rich-if-only-you-knew

HEALTH

The country with the highest female suicide rate in the world

http://www.bbc.com/news/av/stories-42823474/the-country-with-the-highest-female-suicide-rate-in-the-world

Millennials ‘set to be fattest generation’

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-43195977

EDUCATION & FAMILY

Special school for disruptive children (where they’re not labelled ‘bad’ – just they’ve made ‘a bad choice’)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/the_pru_pupil_referral_unit

SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY & ENVIRONMENT

Samsung Galaxy S9 focuses on the camera

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43163378

CULTURE (including LANGUAGE)

Nine films to watch in March

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20180222-nine-films-to-watch-in-march

How to speak like Black Panther

http://www.bbc.com/news/av/entertainment-arts-43196659/how-to-speak-like-black-panther

TRAVEL

The mysterious origins of Finland’s true name

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20180225-the-mysterious-origins-of-finlands-true-name

MISCELLANEOUS

China warns parents after boy filmed peeing in lift

http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-43198994

 

 

 

BBC (etc.) website articles week 9 2018
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