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Week 5 2017

Someone’s been busy. He pops up everywhere – even in my “culture” section

V = video report

My Pick of the Week

Yanis Varoufakis: ‘Western Democracies need a New Deal’

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-38816480

WORLD NEWS

Quebec mosque attack: Student Alexandre Bissonnette charged

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38805163

Trump executive order: US judge temporarily halts deportations (and the chaos continues)

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38786660

Will the US entry ban affect the fight against IS? (Yes, negatively, according to the article)

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38802673

Trump and Putin make counter-terror top priority in first call

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38786199

How Trump abortion funding cuts* could affect Africa (*the so-called “Mexico City Policy”)

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-38768901

Can Barrow stem flow of young Gambians heading for Europe?

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-38756060

West Africa – from dictators’ club to upholder of democracy

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-38757055

FRANCE & Europe

Marine Le Pen: Deadline passes for National Front leader to repay EU funds

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38821074

Fillon pay row: Offices raided in French parliament

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38813936

‘Spiderman burglar’ goes on trial over Paris art theft

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38801497

Francois Fillon: I will drop out of France president race if investigated

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-38769136

UK, USA & Canada

Trump’s first week (Obama left Trump a “beautiful” letter – not 3 envelopes!)

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38768272

UK and US ‘committed’ to NATO

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38777263

Madeleine Albright and Big Bang actress ‘ready to join Muslim registry’

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38755947

BUSINESS & ECONOMY

Trump: Executive order on small business regulations

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-38800090

Alibaba’s Ant Financial buys MoneyGram for $880m

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-38766590

UK economy grows by 0.6% in fourth quarter

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-38755242

HEALTH

Bangladeshi girl may be first female with ‘tree man syndrome’

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-38810723

V Robots could help solve social care crisis, say academics

http://www.bbc.com/news/education-38770516

Shark-inspired drug may help treat fibrosis, researchers say

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-38792405

Cuts planned to Worcestershire hip and knee operations

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-38770046

Sex is painful for nearly one in 10 women, study finds

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-38729240

TRUE STORY

Growing up a prisoner in a cult (an all-too-familiar tale of control & abuse – North Korea inside a London flat)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-b0af7ef5-1031-4e1f-a3ac-b3c21ef0f932

Sport

Football returns to Aleppo after five years of war

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-38786182

Akil Mitchell describes eyeball popping out during basketball game

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-38767179

EDUCATION & FAMILY

Schools cherry-picking pupils who apply mid-year, says report

http://www.bbc.com/news/education-38771266

SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY & ENVIRONMENT

The secret trade in baby chimps

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-5e8c4bac-c236-4cd9-bacc-db96d733f6cf

Shanghai’s magnetic levitation train

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170125-a-high-speed-getaway-like-no-other

Trump’s ‘control-alt-delete’ on climate change policy

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-38746608

The Danes’ initiative to cut food waste

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170124-the-country-where-unwanted-food-is-selling-out

CULTURE (including LANGUAGE)

Beautifying Baghdad: Colouring in a city of walls

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-38768092

The untranslatable emotions you never knew you had (Embrace foreign terms for special emotions!)

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170126-the-untranslatable-emotions-you-never-knew-you-had

Welcome to the school that teaches you how to be a grown up

http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20170125-welcome-to-the-school-that-teaches-you-how-to-be-a-grown-up

The hidden danger of euphemisms (especially at work!)

http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20170126-the-hidden-danger-of-euphemisms

The Trump era’s top-selling dystopian novels

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-38764041

Why Thais can’t say ‘No’

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170123-where-people-dont-like-to-say-no

TRAVEL

Future: improved airport security

http://www.bbc.com/autos/story/20170118-how-to-improve-airport-security

MISCELLANEOUS

Explorer uses brain scanner to track emotions on UK cities

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-38789281

Aleppo’s tweeting girl Bana Alabed meets Lindsay Lohan

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38775242

Fake News

Did millions vote illegally in the US?

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38744612

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