V = video report
My Pick of the Week
Could giving property rights to the world’s poor unlock trillions?
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-41650606
WORLD NEWS
Trump Xi: Property man meets career communist
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-41882084
Trump in China for talks with Xi amid N Korea tensions
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-41912325
Hamas hands PA control of Gaza border crossings
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-41830114
FRANCE & Europe
Marine Le Pen loses immunity over Twitter IS images
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41918767
Emmanuel Macron writes Eiffel Tower poem for UK schoolgirl
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41846235
Brother of French jihadist killer Mohamed Merah jailed
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41853021
France plans New Caledonia self-rule referendum in 2018
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41857692
UK, USA & Canada
Gun control
V Trump rejects stricter gun checks (Why are we NOT surprised?)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41895042
V What’s Donald Trump said about guns and gun control? (in 2002 he was in favour of banning the sale of assault weapons)
V How US mass shootings are getting worse (after Las Vegas massacre)
V How did Trump do in his terror response? (inconsistent & Fox News influenced)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41812214
V Reality check: Trump’s “tough words” examined
BUSINESS & ECONOMY
V Paradise Papers: Everything you need to know about the leak
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-41880153
HEALTH
Things not to say to someone with vitiligo (Rare skin disease sufferers do stand-up – sitting down!)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/item/8d279a86-7eb5-4f73-a2f7-a9441e70186b
EDUCATION & FAMILY
V What Japanese women think of Ivanka Trump
http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-41874391/what-japanese-women-think-of-ivanka-trump
SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY & ENVIRONMENT
Endangered apes saved from pet trade
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-41767347
CULTURE (including LANGUAGE)
Nigeria’s growing taste for haute cuisine
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-41807848
TRAVEL
The world’s most beautiful road
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20171106-a-drive-along-the-worlds-most-beautiful-road
MISCELLANEOUS
V Price soars after filmmaker’s spoof used car ad goes viral (AMAZING!)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41871936
World’s most expensive dram of Scotch was a fake
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-41695774
Clinton ‘took control’ of the Democratic party
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41850797