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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”)

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/06/steve-bannon-indestructible-national-security-council-donald-trump

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)

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2095975-what-explains-brexit-trump-and-the-rise-of-the-far-right/

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

Roy Smith – BBC website articles Week 15 2017
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