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)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/seeing-believing-how-marie-tharp-changed-geology-forever-180960192/

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

BBC website articles week 44 2017
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