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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