BECAUSE READING IS THE BEST WAY TO EXPAND YOUR VOCABULARY
V = video report
My Pick of the Week
Malala Yousafzai made youngest UN Messenger of Peace
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-39562122
WORLD NEWS
Borussia Dortmund attack: Islamist suspect held
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39580594
Russian arrested in Spain ‘over US election hacking’
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39553250
Syria strike may signal the end of isolationist Trump
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39525265
Syria chemical ‘attack’: Is Trump partly to blame?
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39508784
FRANCE & Europe
French elections:
South-west voters eye Brexit with envy
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39437388
Macron vows to tackle terrorism by taking on tech companies
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39555125
V Francois Fillon hit with flour
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39521564
How France’s alt-right seeks to sway election
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39433483
France migrants: Huge fire guts Grande-Synthe Dunkirk camp
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39562742
French Guiana: The part of South America facing a total shutdown
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39557670
UK, USA & Canada
The Americans volunteering to watch executions
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39535957
Death penalty: Global executions fall 37% since 2015 – Amnesty
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-39557064
The price of Trump’s ‘Winter White House’
(« Every weekend he’s here we have to shut down. And right now that’s every weekend« )
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39497447
BUSINESS & ECONOMY
The country where 70% of millennials are homeowners
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-39512599
Should exercise be compulsory at work?
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-39490607
Is Trump wise to take on China over trade?
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39479751
From Pepsi to Nivea: Some of the worst advertising fails
(One advert was “intended to be funny” but « humour is highly subjective »)
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-39511906
HEALTH
Smoking causes one in 10 deaths worldwide, study shows (It’s time to quit everybody!)
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-39510728
Microdosing: The people taking LSD with their breakfast
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-39516345
OTHER SITES
Steve Bannon seemed indestructible. But with a fickle president, anything’s possible (“…with Kushner as the person really in charge, we will be told to be grateful that the fate of the planet rests on a neophyte who is simply ignorant of the rest of the world rather than one who is openly hostile to it”)
Dark Days: going underground with New York’s tunnel-dwellers
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/jan/26/dark-days-marc-singer-new-york
What explains Brexit, Trump and the rise of the far right? (New Scientist article from 2016 – interesting links)
EDUCATION & FAMILY
Labia stretching: Why some British girls are told to do it (FGM)
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-39448355
Term-time holiday dad loses court battle over school fine
http://www.bbc.com/news/education-39504338
Half of teenagers ‘never been in a theatre’
http://www.bbc.com/news/education-39479035
SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY & ENVIRONMENT
Two-thirds of Great Barrier Reef damaged
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-39553491
Twitter sues US over anti-Trump account
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39522164
UN report: Clean power is up, costs are down (Will somebody please tell Mr Trump?)
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39513339
CULTURE (including LANGUAGE)
Why an X-Men comic has ignited political debate in Indonesia
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-39550662
Pulitzers: Investigation into Trump’s philanthropy wins
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39561401
V We can learn a lot from how the French do lunch
http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20170407-we-can-learn-a-lot-from-how-the-french-do-lunch
TRAVEL
V United Airlines: Passenger forcibly removed from flight
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39554421
The world’s first (officially) Christian country (Can you guess which one?)
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170330-the-worlds-first-christian-country
The mysterious origins of the piata
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170331-the-mysterious-origins-of-the-piata
MISCELLANEOUS
V The Syrian refugees finding hope in chocolate (A feel-good story, of course!)
http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20170405-the-syrian-refugees-finding-hope-in-chocolate
Mother ‘threw anorexic daughter’s body into the sea’ (But this is sad!)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39511939