BECAUSE READING IS THE BEST WAY TO EXPAND YOUR VOCABULARY
Week 3 2017
V = video report
My Pick of the Week
Disabled Syrian beats adversity by running German NGO
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38563161
WORLD NEWS
How South Korea stopped its parents aborting girls
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-38362474
1 July 2016: armed Islamist militants storm a restaurant in Dhaka, Bangladesh…
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-38459996
FRANCE & Europe
French Polynesia signs first ‘floating city’ deal
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-38647174
France holds Middle East peace summit
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-38608990
V Why aren’t the Israelis and Palestinians talking?
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-38614618
Icy storm lashes France and Germany causing hardship
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38607862
V US tanks and troops arrive in Poland
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38603234
Will Catalonia try to secede from Spain this year?
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38582121
UK, USA & Canada
V Theresa May addresses Davos
http://www.bbc.com/news/live/business-38598881
V Obama’s advice to Trump: ‘Reality has a way of biting back’
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38671714
V Theresa May: UK must leave European single market (video on the confusing Brexit options)
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-38641208
Trump worries Nato with ‘obsolete’ comment
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38635181
Democrat inauguration boycott grows
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38636136
US patients await Obamacare’s fate
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38590922
Trump v his nominees on Russia
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38590389
Russia and the art of ‘kompromat’
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38613979
BUSINESS & ECONOMY
Support for EU freedom of movement rules ‘eroding’
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-38613027
Fiat accused over emissions software
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-38600012
If you want to earn more work less
http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20170112-if-you-want-to-earn-more-work-less
HEALTH
Urine test reveals what you really eat
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-38597284
Sport
Yip Pin Xiu: Singapore’s all-conquering Paralympian
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-38504257
CULTURE (including LANGUAGE)
29 TV shows to watch out for in 2017
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170112-29-tv-shows-to-watch-out-for-in-2017
TRAVEL
The desolate English path that has killed more than 100 people
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170110-why-the-broomway-is-the-most-dangerous-path-in-britain
A surreal synchronised wave of light (where you can find synchronous fireflies)
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170112-a-surreal-synchronised-wave-of-light
MISCELLANEOUS
Lady Liberty to be black woman on new US $100 coin (unless someone vetoes it)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38622886
South Africa’s battle with the bottle
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-38587655
Sudan diplomat in New York and other cases of diplomatic immunity
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-38576257