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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’)

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170220-the-surprising-truth-about-why-we-sleep-and-how-much-we-need

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

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