BECAUSE READING IS THE BEST WAY TO EXPAND YOUR VOCABULARY
Week 8 2017
V = video report
My Pick of the Week
V Victim of Soviet test wants all nuclear weapons destroyed
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-38998583
WORLD NEWS
The man who rebuilt a village
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170220-the-man-who-rebuilt-a-village
V Israel-Palestinian conflict: UN warns Trump over two-state reversal
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-38989906
FRANCE, UK & Europe
Calls for blasphemy ban on Russian film Matilda
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39048496
Jean-Claude Juncker: UK faces hefty Brexit bill
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-39042876
France ‘attack plot’: Three arrested
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39042196
Paris unrest: Banlieue youths see French state as the enemy
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39011298
Francois Fillon goes back on promise to quit if investigated
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39010250
V Where will the EU’s real centre be after Brexit?
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38933918
Is Sweden’s feminist agenda working?
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39004991
USA & Canada: Trump & his team
How much has President Trump achieved so far?
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38663043
Robert Harward turns down Trump’s national security adviser offer
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39000389
V V V Trump’s most extraordinary news conference
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38999993
BUSINESS & ECONOMY
Come to France post-Brexit, banks urged
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-39042884
HEALTH
Trump’s mental health debate: What is it about?
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38991171
Life expectancy to break 90 barrier by 2030
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-39040146
The surprising truth about why we sleep and how much we need (contains many synonyms for ‘sleep’)
EDUCATION & FAMILY
Lack of sex education a ticking time bomb, councils warn
http://www.bbc.com/news/education-38967856
SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY & ENVIRONMENT
How an empty sea helped the blue whale grow so enormous
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170216-how-an-empty-sea-helped-the-blue-whale-grow-so-enormous
Facebook algorithms ‘will identify terrorists’
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-38992657
Google hails net balloon ‘breakthrough’
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-38999704
Kerb lights guide ‘smartphone zombies’
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology
CULTURE (including LANGUAGE)
How Nasa hired its first black women ‘computers’
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-39003904
TRAVEL
Zealandia: Is there an eighth continent under New Zealand?
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-39000936
MISCELLANEOUS
V The British woman fighting IS in Syria
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-38992368
‘Fake news city’ is now pumping out odd Facebook videos
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-38971987
Iceland police tell drivers to stop staring at sky
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-38970477
New Zealand garden gnome thefts ‘fund meth trade’
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-39040176
Toilet finder app for Japanese workers (now that would be useful in France!)
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-39042176
(Article on the source of lithium)
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170220-the-cosmic-explosions-that-made-the-universe