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Week 9 2017
V = video report
My Pick of the Week
Can your smartphone make you a safer driver?
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-38954975
WORLD NEWS
Mexico’s foreign minister rejects Trump deportation policy
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-39054999
Divisive political rhetoric a danger to the world, Amnesty says
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-39048293
Why does a Nigerian Muslim leader want to restrict polygamy?
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-39038459
FRANCE & Europe
Fillon refuses to quit French election despite charges
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39125941
French police sniper shoots two in error
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39121997
Trump Paris jibe: Mayor uses Mickey Mouse to fight back
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39090784
France election:
‘Obama for president’, 42,000 supporters say
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39116133
Centrist boost for liberal candidate Macron (« A major and immediate threat for our country and Europe, » dixit Marine Le Pen)
Paris protests: Students tear-gassed by police
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39066918
French artist Abraham Poincheval entombs himself in boulder
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39053541
UK, USA & Canada
V V President Trump to skip White House correspondents’ dinner
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39093434
Witches cast ‘mass spell’ against Donald Trump (Only result? “fury among Christian conservatives”)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39090334
V The town halls trying to tackle Trump’s agenda
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39045707
US Muslim community campaigns to repair Jewish cemetery
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39049102
ECONOMY BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY
V The boss who doesn’t believe in work-life balance
http://www.bbc.com/capital/gallery/20170223-the-boss-who-doesnt-believe-in-work-life-balance
Faulty tumble dryers: More than 40,000 sign recall petition
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-39063180
A guided tour of the cybercrime underground
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-38755584
Can a ‘superpower force field’ protect us from hackers?
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-38829663
HEALTH
Spider phobia brain ‘processes unconscious fear’
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-38880104
OTHER SITES
With ‘Fake News,’ Trump Moves From Alternative Facts To Alternative Language
EDUCATION & FAMILY
V Smoke alarms ‘fail to wake children’
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-38918056
SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT
Most wood energy schemes are a ‘disaster’ for climate change
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39053678
V Star’s seven Earth-sized worlds set record
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39034050
Thousands of spills at US oil and gas fracking sites
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39032748
Plastic from tyres ‘major source’ of ocean pollution
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39042655
CULTURE (including LANGUAGE)
Zweig: the writer who dreamed of a world without borders
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170221-zweig-the-writer-who-dreamed-of-a-world-without-borders
TRAVEL
The extraordinary UK sites you have to see from the air
http://www.bbc.com/travel/gallery/20170222-the-extraordinary-uk-sites-you-have-to-see-from-the-air
The country that tourism has taken by surprise (a clue: capital = Reykjavik)
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170222-the-country-that-tourism-has-taken-by-surprise
Living in the world’s most welcoming countries
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170215-living-in-the-worlds-most-welcoming-countries
MISCELLANEOUS
V Meet the new Arab emojis
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-39079974
Our ancestors were drinking alcohol before they were human
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170222-our-ancestors-were-drinking-alcohol-before-they-were-human