BECAUSE READING IS THE BEST WAY TO EXPAND YOUR VOCABULARY
Week 11 2017
V = video report
My Pick of the Week
Richard Dawkins: Brits have NOT spoken on Brexit
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-39218108
REFLECTION
When is a war actually a war?
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-39222619
Trump and the media – Is it war or love?
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-39221378
WORLD NEWS
Dutch election: Voters return a new reality (Would that the good news continues!)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39291069
V World facing greatest humanitarian crisis since 1945
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-39238808
Burma: atrocities against the Rohingya & Aung San Suu Kyi’s silence
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-39204086
Putin and Netanyahu: A complex diplomatic dance
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39213488
Bolivia’s Morales boosts legal coca production
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-39214085
FRANCE & Europe
French school shooting: ‘Several hurt’ in Grasse attack (breaking news)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39292755
Paris IMF letter bomb injures one employee
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39292671
EU workplace headscarf ban ‘can be legal’, says ECJ
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39264845
Francois Fillon placed under formal investigation
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39265906
Why has Erdogan riled Nato allies?
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39255864
Germany axe attack: Seven injured at Duesseldorf train station
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39225847
UK, USA & Canada
Trump slump? US tourism industry fears downturn
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39121276
US hospitals oppose Trump-backed health bill (“poor Americans could lose insurance”)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39214165
BUSINESS & ECONOMY
Ivanka Trump clothing brand sales ‘boom’
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39210862
Girl statue faces Wall Street bull to fight gender inequality
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39204218
HEALTH
The town that built a mirror to catch the sun
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170314-the-town-that-built-a-mirror-to-catch-the-sun
SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY & ENVIRONMENT
V Hands-on with the jacket with Google woven in
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39263273
V Luckless lizard completely fails to spot venomous snake (young David Attenborough and Montpellier snake)
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170310-luckless-lizard-completely-fails-to-spot-venomous-snake
Uber stops using Greyball ‘secret program’ to dodge regulators
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39214925
CULTURE (including LANGUAGE)
Why The Silence of the Lambs is a feminist fable
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170307-why-the-silence-of-the-lambs-is-a-feminist-fable
MISCELLANEOUS
The wreck of the Titanic is being eaten and may soon vanish (we also discover in what circumstances the wreck was discovered!)
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170310-the-wreck-of-the-titanic-is-being-eaten-and-may-soon-vanish
The calf that survived the slaughterhouse (features Arkansas accent)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39232867
‘Justin Bieber impostor’ on 931 child sex-related charges
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-39214515