V = video report
My Pick of the Week
Sport
The evolution of women’s sportswear (hats off to Suzanne Lenglen)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-41742378
WORLD NEWS
New York truck attack: What we know and don’t know
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41829264
FRANCE & Europe
Catalonia: Puigdemont ‘will not return’ to Spain for questioning
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41829341
The rise of ‘freelance’ exorcists in France
http://www.bbc.com/capital/gallery/20171031-the-rise-of-freelance-exorcists-in-france
UK, USA & Canada
JFK assassination: Questions that won’t go away
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41741216
V JFK assassination: Thousands of files released
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41771923
BUSINESS & ECONOMY
Hotel booking sites probed by consumer watchdog (to see if consumers are being misled by them)
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-41769488
OTHER SITES
How Marie Tharp Changed Geology Forever (subject of a Sur les Epaules de Darwin lecture by JC Ameisen)
SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY & ENVIRONMENT
Chinese uni uses facial recognition to track absent students
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-41749929
Twitter bans RT and Sputnik ads amid election interference fears
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41766991
HEALTH
Resignation syndrome: Sweden’s mystery illness
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-41748485
CULTURE (including LANGUAGE)
Ten films to watch in November
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20171025-ten-films-to-watch-in-november
MISCELLANEOUS
Nuclear shelter vent turned into R2D2 from Star Wars
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-41735261