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V = video report

My Pick of the Week

V Meeting an organ trafficker who preys on Syrian refugees (while we sit comfortably…)

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-39272511

REFLECTION

V President Trump: Seven ways the world has changed

http://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-37918242

WORLD NEWS

Trump and Putin: Syria ceasefire heads leaders’ agenda

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-39784620

Japan sends biggest warship to protect US supply vessel

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-39768110

Turkish authorities block Wikipedia without giving reason

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39754909

Venezuela crisis: What is behind the turmoil?

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-36319877

FRANCE & Europe

France election

V Macron ‘most convincing’ in final debate

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39801315

V How do Le Pen and Macron differ on world affairs?

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39778211

Le Pen accused of plagiarising Fillon

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39776929

V Joan of Arc: who was she, anyway? (spot the historical inaccuracies)

http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-39773461/joan-of-arc-who-was-she-anyway

Does Le Pen have a chance of winning French presidency?

http://www.bbc.com/news/39719866

UK, USA & Canada

White House relaxes Obama-era healthy school lunch rules

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39778238

HEALTH

The woman with a strange second sight (it’s called ‘blindsight’)

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170428-i-have-a-strange-second-sight

Why doing a poo* takes almost all animals roughly 12 seconds (*faire caca – you have been warned)

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170427-why-do

BUSINESS & ECONOMY

Apple sees surprise fall in iPhone sales

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-39786961

EDUCATION & FAMILY

V Young Middle East men ‘as conservative as elders’, study suggests

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-39784721

SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY & ENVIRONMENT

Are a billion identities at risk on India’s biometric database?

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-39769322

CULTURE (including LANGUAGE)

Paris art dealer ‘forgets’ €1.5m picture in taxi

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39782481

Ten books to read in May

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170428-ten-books-to-read-in-may

TRAVEL

Europe’s surprising knife capital (Clue: it’s in Auvergne)

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170425-europes-surprising-knife-capital

MISCELLANEOUS

The man who has saved 92 crash victims

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-39664906

Hypnosis and holy water: Russian ‘cures’ for gay people

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39777612

 

 

 

Roy Smith – BBC website articles Week 18 2017
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