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V = video report

My Pick of the Week

The end of the Anglo-American order?

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40227270

WORLD NEWS

London fire

V Questions need to be asked, says Mayor Sadiq Khan

http://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-40274583/london-fire-questions-need-to-be-asked-says-mayor-sadiq-khan

Families threw children out of Grenfell Tower to safety (wiv a bi’a Cockney)

http://www.bbc.com/news/av/40270874/london-fire-families-threw-children-out-of-grenfell-tower-to-safety

How are fires fought in high-rise blocks?

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-40273714

FRANCE & Europe

What are the French president’s policies?

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39845905

UK, USA & Canada

Virginia shooting raises spectre, but not likelihood, of gun control (predictable)

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40255592

Irish PM expresses ‘concern’ over DUP deal

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-40239664

BUSINESS & ECONOMY

How BAE sold cyber-surveillance tools to Arab states

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-40276568

HEALTH

Drug that creates a ‘real sun-tan’ could prevent cancer

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-40260029

OTHER SITES

Five things you need to know about DUP politicians and science (disturbing)

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2134162-five-things-you-need-to-know-about-dup-politicians-and-science/

How Louis XIV invented fashion as we know it

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/09/the-king-of-couture/402952/

EDUCATION & FAMILY

Top university under ‘ransomware’ cyber-attack

http://www.bbc.com/news/education-40288548

The child marriage tradition of an Indian tribe (in pictures)

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-39958307

SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY & ENVIRONMENT

V EU citizens celebrate the end of roaming fees

http://www.bbc.com/news/av/business-40288356/eu-citizens-celebrate-the-end-of-roaming-fees

CULTURE (including LANGUAGE)

‘Seductive names’ make vegetables more appealing

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-40245922

Why thousands of teens ran away from home in the 1960s (She’s Leaving Home – 50th anniversary)

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170615-when-all-the-children-ran-away

TRAVEL

V Easyjet plane diverted after ‘suspicious conversation’

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40236823

MISCELLANEOUS

Chinese scientists to grow potatoes on the moon (This IS serious)

http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-40272873

V The Indian video challenging ‘shy bride’ stereotypes

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-40008879

Ramadan TV pranks go to extremes in ratings battle (tales of the unexpected)

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-40188845

 

 

Roy Smith – BBC website articles Week 24 2017
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