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V = video report

My Pick of the Week

Schools should teach pupils how to spot ‘fake news’

http://www.bbc.com/news/education-39272841

WORLD NEWS

Police officer ‘stabbed at UK Parliament’

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-39355940

Electronics ban: How will new US and UK rules affect me?

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39336518

Military action against North Korea ‘ an option’

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-39297031

Is North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un rational? (Since irrationality seems to be fashionable)

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-39269783

V Trump’s 100 days: The budget and that wire-tapping claim

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39303860

Trump budget: Global losers of ‘America First’ plan

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39295939

V Merkel and Trump begin key talks at White House

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39300452

FRANCE & Europe

French minister Bruno Le Roux hit by summer jobs revelations

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39338104

Orly airport: Drugs and alcohol found in gunman’s blood

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39323833

Prince William delivers message to France from Queen

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-39312129

France election:

North-east voters are in cynical mood

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39284234

UK, USA & Canada

V Was Russia involved in the US presidential election?

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39325046

Scottish independence: Referendum demand ‘will be rejected’ (watch this space)

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-39293513

BUSINESS & ECONOMY

Google promises to take action on ‘hateful’ content

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-39336974

The international companies using only English

http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20170317-the-international-companies-using-only-english

HEALTH

V Device promises injections without needles

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39301005

SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY & ENVIRONMENT

V The company turning soot from vehicle exhausts into art (wily Indian chaps)

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39303716

CULTURE (including LANGUAGE)

How do we determine when a behaviour is normal (Is English “normal” sliding towards French “normal”?)

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170314-how-do-we-determine-when-a-behaviour-is-normal

The sequels that should never have been made

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-39257838

The most fashionable Englishwoman in Paris

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-39128908

V Chuck Berry dies aged 90

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-39318812

TRAVEL

Ten of the world’s most beautiful floors (not available from Lapeyre)

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170314-ten-of-the-worlds-most-beautiful-floors

How tube got their hilarious names (including from an abbey in Normandy)

http://www.bbc.com/autos/story/20170208-how-tube-stations-got-their-hilarious-names

MISCELLANEOUS

No cardboard cut-outs of Trudeau, Canada diplomats told (Pythonesque story)

http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-39340650

V New Monopoly pieces: Who’s in, who’s out?

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-39308622

Beijing park dispenses loo roll using facial recognition

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-39324431

 

 

 

BBC website articles Week 12 2017
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