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Week 40
WORLD NEWS
The bombing of Aleppo’s children
http://www.bbc.com/news/video_and_audio/headlines/37559145
Is so-called Islamic State finished?
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-37550300
Turkey post-coup purges convulse society
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37517735
Colombia referendum: Voters reject Farc peace deal
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-37537252
Typhoon Chaba batters South Korea and heads to Japan
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-37570852
India ratifies Paris climate agreement
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-37536348
Italy earthquake: Putting a disaster on Facebook
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37548063
FRANCE
Kim Kardashian West robbed of millions by Paris gunmen
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37538453
The 90-second guide to the Paris motor show
http://www.bbc.com/autos/story/20160929-the-90-second-guide-to-the-paris-motor-show
Jihadist attack church re-opens
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37534090
UK, USA & Canada
Ex-Apprentice insiders blast Trump’s ‘sexist’ remarks
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37542294
BUSINESS & ECONOMY
Globalisation: Where on the elephant are you?
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-37542494
Deutsche Bank: What’s the risk?
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-37518096
HEALTH
Why does the NHS spend money on homeopathy?
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-37557083
Medicine Nobel for cell recycling work
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-37540927
EDUCATION & FAMILY
Teenagers’ brain connections ‘make them learn differently’
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-37567362
SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY & ENVIRONMENT
Tiny machines win chemistry Nobel prize
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37486374
Call to close ivory markets agreed at Cites conference
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37535717
CULTURE (including LANGUAGE)
Calls for chess boycott over Iran’s hijab laws
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-37560768
What can you learn from Shakespeare’s heroines?
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-37562329
8 of the world’s quirkiest phrases (4 of which are French – 2 of which I’d never heard before)
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160929-the-worlds-quirkiest-phrases
MISCELLANEOUS
This is why “Christmas creep” makes us cringe
http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20160929-this-is-why-christmas-creep-makes-us-cringe
German mystery over man, 43, who never left home
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37560875
Police in India detain 750 over US call centre scam
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-37564408