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Week 24 2016
WORLD NEWS
EgyptAir crash: Wreckage found in Mediterranean
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-36543969
Orlando nightclub shooting: Talking gun control at a shooting range
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36514354
FRANCE
French police officials’ murder ‘is terrorism’ – Hollande
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36524094
Crossing into the alien north… of Paris
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-36493407
Air France: Pilots’ strike to hit Euro 2016
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36506035
UK & USA
CIA chief Brennan: Secret US report on 9/11 ‘will absolve Saudi’
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36512049
Is Facebook doing enough to stop private gun sales?
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-36493377
30 of your Britishisms used by Americans (old article – but interesting for those interested in language evolution)
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-19929249
BUSINESS & ECONOMY
How Western businessmen make money from North Korea
http://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-36501210
What not to wear in the office (video clip with interviews)
http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20160609-too-hot-to-handle-what-not-to-wear-in-the-office
HEALTH
Why some people eat dirt (it’s called geophagy)
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160615-the-people-who-cant-stop-eating-dirt
‘There’s no point giving free cancer drugs to Africa’
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-36482367
Obesity boom ‘fuelling rise in malnutrition’
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-36518770
MS (multiple sclerosis): New therapy but a dilemma for patients
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-36503402
SPORT
Euro 2016
Violence: Police arrest 36 over Lille disorder
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-36543468
Russia given suspended disqualification
http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/36528403
150 Russians ‘behind’ violence
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-36515213
French government calls for alcohol ban in match zones
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36513700
Beleaguered France needs a successful Euros
http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/36484047
England fans in fresh clashes with police
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-36504410
OTHER SITES
Executions in Iran could top 1,000 this year, says Amnesty International
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/23/executions-iran-1000-this-year-amnesty-international
Iranian Soccer Player Jailed Over Photos With Unveiled Women
SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY & ENVIRONMENT
Here’s the truth about the planned obsolescence of tech
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160612-heres-the-truth-about-the-planned-obsolescence-of-tech
Can ‘super coral’ save the Great Barrier Reef?
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-36486474
CULTURE (including LANGUAGE)
The secret “anti-languages” you’re not supposed to know
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160211-the-secret-anti-languages-youre-not-supposed-to-know
Arabic comedienne makes an impression
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-36499834
Spain election: Podemos’ Ikea-style appeal to young voters
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36506949
TRAVEL
The Najca mystery solved from space
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160408-the-ancient-peruvian-mystery-solved-from-space
MISCELLANEOUS
The place where cast-off clothes end up
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-36498061
How the British let one million Indians die in famine
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-36339524
Seagull turns orange after falling into curry (actually chicken tikka masala)
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-36490552