BECAUSE READING IS THE BEST WAY TO EXPAND YOUR VOCABULARY
V = video report
My Pick of the Week
Coffee under threat: Will it taste worse as the planet warms?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-fa38cb91-bdc0-4229-8cae-1d5c3b447337
WORLD NEWS
In Pictures World events: 3-9 June 2017
http://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-40308278
Why Mosul’s Great Mosque of al-Nuri mattered
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-39339373
Mosul battle: Despair and death as civilians flee (« IS snipers… kept shooting at us »)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-40307827
India internet shutdowns ‘violate human rights’
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-40298722
FRANCE & Europe
Brexit and security loom large at EU summit
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40362574
Emmanuel Macron’s conquest is complete – what now?
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40322516
Top Macron ally Bayrou quits French government
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40351918
Champs Elysees: Car ‘deliberately hits’ police van in Paris
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40332532
UK, USA & Canada
The triumph that wasn’t (UK general election)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/General_election
US Supreme Court to rule on gerrymandering
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40332019
V Finsbury Park attack: Theresa May condemns ‘sickening’ terror attack
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-40322960
V London fire: Protests held as fire anger increases
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-40298473
V Is Trump really ‘cancelling’ Obama’s Cuba policy? (What Trump says vs the facts)
http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-40307212/is-trump-really-cancelling-obama-s-cuba-policy
Otto Warmbier: US doctors dispute N Korean coma story
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40297248
BUSINESS & ECONOMY
Amazon to buy Whole Foods for $13.7bn
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-40306099
Barclays charged with fraud in Qatar case
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-40338220
HEALTH
Coconut oil ‘as unhealthy as beef fat and butter’
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-40300145
OTHER SITES
A review of Theresa vs Boris: How May became PM (if it’s ever on French TV watch it)
EDUCATION & FAMILY
Foreign languages – the north south divide
http://www.bbc.com/news/education-40288547
SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY & ENVIRONMENT
Portugal wildfires: Why are they so deadly?
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40341180
CULTURE (including LANGUAGE)
V How a South Sudanese refugee became a supermodel
http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-40332640/how-a-south-sudanese-refugee-became-a-supermodel
MISCELLANEOUS
V (Have you) Ever wondered what Jared Kushner sounds like? (disappointingly normal)
http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-40336129/ever-wondered-what-jared-kushner-sounds-like
Tunisian women who want to be virgins again
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-40288822