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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

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