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Week 46 2016

WORLD NEWS

Iraq Nimrud: Inside ancient city reduced to rubble

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-38000153

FRANCE

Part of an Eiffel Tower staircase up for auction (video with English subtitles)

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38007867

Macron joins presidential race to ‘unblock France’

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37994372

Sting tribute for Bataclan victims (in French)

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37965242

Marine Le Pen: Trump win boosts my chances (You’ll have been warned)

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37964776

UK, USA & Canada

The Trump resistance movement builds

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38005262

BUSINESS & ECONOMY

French confectioners battle Chinese firm over Calissons d’Aix

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38005875

Obama defends globalisation on Germany visit

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38006937

Culture shocks for Chinese ex-pats working in the West

http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20161115-the-weird-world-of-the-western-workplace

Oil industry faces boom-and-bust, warns IEA energy group

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-38000177

What the state of your desk says about you

http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20161108-what-the-state-of-your-desk-says-about-you

HEALTH

We’ve got human intelligence all wrong (We are only different from animals in one crucial respect)

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20161108-weve-got-human-intelligence-all-wrong

Stress ‘changes brains of boys and girls differently’

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-37936514

Why does this woman think she is ugly? (She has BDD, of course!)

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-37923088

QUIZ

Can you spot the fake stories? (my score: 2/7)

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-38005844

OTHER SITES

The Independent: Nine times Donald Trump has already betrayed the US voters who put their faith in him

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-elections/donald-trump-nine-times-betrayed-voters-us-election-2016-mexico-clinton-muslims-a7413341.html

EDUCATION & FAMILY

Online bullying counselling on increase, says Childline

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-37970725

SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY & ENVIRONMENT

Five of Attenborough’s greatest moments

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20161115-five-of-attenboroughs-greatest-moments

Twitter suspends alt-right figureheads

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37997864

20 world-changing ideas to make tomorrow better

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20161113-20-world-changing-ideas-to-make-tomorrow-better

CULTURE (including LANGUAGE)

Pidgin – West African lingua franca

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-38000387

Entertainment Week in Pictures: 6-12 November

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-37929076

Tongue twisters to get you tongue tied (What the French for “tongue-twister”?)

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-37952197

TRAVEL

Why is airline food so bad?

http://www.bbc.com/autos/story/20161115-why-is-airline-food-so-bad

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