My Pick of the Week
US mid-term elections 2018: Trump’s invincible, but for how much longer?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46099744
World
Cameroon school kidnap: More than 70 pupils seized in Bamenda
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-46096924
New Caledonia: French Pacific territory rejects independence
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-46087053
What are Pakistan’s blasphemy laws?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-south-asia-12621225
Europe
Denmark accuses Iran of activist murder plot
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46029981
America
Mid-terms 2018: When an attack ad is a vote decider
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46039099
Trump’s birthright plan: The legality, politics and history
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-46034989
BUSINESS & ECONOMY
Why the Chinese yuan is falling
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-46031652
HEALTH
French babies born with missing limbs prompt inquiry
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46043564
EDUCATION & FAMILY
Finland’s schools ditch traditional classrooms for open-plan learning
Dutch language besieged by English at university
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46030112
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Can artificial intelligence help stop religious violence?
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46035542
Facebook daily visits growth slows as sales miss forecasts
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-46038496
ENVIRONMENT
Global hunger for soybeans ‘destroying Brazil’s Cerrado savanna’
CULTURE (including LANGUAGE)
French poet Baudelaire suicide letter fetches €234,000 at auction
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46091078
Hardcore Halloween 365 (be prepared for nightmare visions)
Senegalese artist Omar Victor Diop: Why I’m trying to correct history
MISCELLANEOUS
Gab drops offline after Pittsburgh shooting
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46017529