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Week 44 2016

SHORT WEEK = SHORT LIST

WORLD NEWS

Mosul battle: Iraqi PM Abadi urges IS to surrender

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-37831072

UK, USA & Canada

England & Scotland FAs to defy poppy ban despite FIFA sanction threat

http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/37853386

Brexit: High Court judges to give legal verdict

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-37855207

How will Brexit affect ex-pats?

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-37822710

US election

Obama warns fate of world at stake

http://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-37854525

FBI probe into Clinton emails – what we know

http://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-37811529

FBI Director Comey – both hero and villain (again)

http://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-37827156

HEALTH

Landmark chronic fatigue trial could treat two-thirds

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-37822068

Will ‘Fix rooms’ help drug addicts?

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-37825524

The true cost of diabetes

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-37694768

Why obesity damages your mind as well as your body

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20161031-why-obesity-damages-your-mind-as-well-as-your-body

QUIZ

Which world leaders are you most like?

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-37833792

SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY & ENVIRONMENT

‘Bionic’ plants can detect explosives

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37823909

Images reveal crashed Mars lander

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37788444

CULTURE (including LANGUAGE)

Ten films to watch in November

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20161028-ten-films-to-watch-in-november

MISCELLANEOUS

The American student who gave Cambodian children a chance to get clean

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-37775173

The real-life disease that spread the vampire myth

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20161031-the-real-life-disease-that-spread-the-vampire-myth

Fighting child abuse in Pakistan

http://www.bbc.com/news/video_and_audio/headlines/37764866

Untangling where your hair extensions really come from

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-37781147

Roy Smith – This week’s crop of BBC website articles
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