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Bulls and bullying: the fight over animal rights and tradition - BBC News | 2017-01-21 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | Animal rights activists caught in social media cross-fire regarding banned bull-taming tradition. | BBC Trending | Tamil actress Trisha Krishnan deleted her Twitter account as a result of a row over bull-taming
A ban on the ancient practice of bull-taming has spurred thousands to protest in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. While the demonstrations have been mostly peaceful, the argument over the festival has turned ugly on... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-38656721 | news_blogs-trending-38656721 | |
Brexit: Berlin business leaders unimpressed with UK's message - BBC News | 2017-01-21 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | An appeal over a post-Brexit trade deal was met with sniggers in Berlin, Damien McGuinness writes. | Business | Two British officials failed to win favour from German business leaders in Berlin
The distinguished audience members were too polite to heckle. But the eye rolling, frowns and audible tutting made it quite clear how the Brexiteers' message was going down with German business leaders.
Owen Paterson, a former minister ... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38707997 | news_business-38707997 | |
Was Buzzfeed right on Donald Trump dossier? - BBC News | 2017-01-13 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | Buzzfeed's decision to publish the Donald Trump dossier raises many questions about modern journalism. | Entertainment & Arts | Donald Trump has criticised the decision to publish the dossier
Was Buzzfeed right to publish the Trump dossier?
That comes down to editorial judgement, which is to news what eggs are to an omelette - the essential ingredient.
That said, I opened this post with a question which I will not answer - partly because I w... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-38600531 | news_entertainment-arts-38600531 | |
Does Catholic praise for Mary Magdalene show progress towards women priests? - BBC News | 2017-01-13 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | Does increasing honour paid to Mary Magdalene in the Catholic Church show progress towards women priests? | UK | The emotional scene in John's Gospel in which Jesus calls to the grieving Mary Magdalene by name and she tries to touch him has inspired many artists. This is Titian's interpretation.
The gospels depict Mary Magdalene as one of Jesus' closest companions. Her emotional encounter with the risen Jesus and her supposed si... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38528682 | news_uk-38528682 | |
Bernie Ecclestone: Why F1's titanic leader was loved and loathed - BBC Sport | 2017-01-25 | None | Bye, bye, Bernie. F1's revolutionary, roguish leader has finally vacated the throne he created - so how will he be remembered? | null | Bernie Ecclestone stands a little under 5ft 3in tall but for 40 years has wielded a giant influence in Formula 1 with canniness, wit and not a little menace.
At times, Ecclestone has had close to absolute power. So the end of his reign following the takeover of the sport by US giant Liberty Media represents a seismic ... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/38721123 | rt_formula1_38721123 | |
Brexit white paper: Climbdown or goodwill gesture - BBC News | 2017-01-25 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | Giving MPs a white paper is a clear concession by Theresa May but one that is unlikely to affect her Brexit timetable or damage her authority. | UK Politics | It was only yesterday that the Brexit Secretary, David Davis, told MPs it just might all be a bit tricky to have a White Paper, a formal document outlining the government's plans for Brexit, and stick to the timetable they want to pursue.
Rebel Remainers though were "delighted", that, stealing Jeremy Corbyn's thunder,... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-38747976 | news_uk-politics-38747976 | |
Bulls and bullying: the fight over animal rights and tradition - BBC News | 2017-01-22 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | Animal rights activists caught in social media cross-fire regarding banned bull-taming tradition. | BBC Trending | Tamil actress Trisha Krishnan deleted her Twitter account as a result of a row over bull-taming
A ban on the ancient practice of bull-taming has spurred thousands to protest in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. While the demonstrations have been mostly peaceful, the argument over the festival has turned ugly on... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-38656721 | news_blogs-trending-38656721 | |
Brexit: Berlin business leaders unimpressed with UK's message - BBC News | 2017-01-22 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | An appeal over a post-Brexit trade deal was met with sniggers in Berlin, Damien McGuinness writes. | Business | Two British officials failed to win favour from German business leaders in Berlin
The distinguished audience members were too polite to heckle. But the eye rolling, frowns and audible tutting made it quite clear how the Brexiteers' message was going down with German business leaders.
Owen Paterson, a former minister ... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38707997 | news_business-38707997 | |
Is it OK to watch porn in public? - BBC News | 2017-01-14 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | How would you feel if the person sitting next to you on the bus was watching porn - and what would you do about it? | Magazine | It's no secret that lots of people watch pornography on the internet. It's usually something done behind closed doors - but how would you feel about someone watching porn in public? The BBC's Siobhann Tighe describes a troubling experience on a London bus.
It had been a long day at work. I got on the bus at 7.30 in th... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-38611265 | news_magazine-38611265 | |
Could a national maximum wage work? - BBC News | 2017-01-10 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | Jeremy Corbyn’s call on Radio 4’s Today programme for a high earnings cap is not a unique position. Franklin D Roosevelt called for something similar. | Business | In 1942, Franklin D Roosevelt - not known as a Socialist radical, though he had his moments - proposed that anyone earning over $25,000 should be taxed at 100%.
Effectively, the President of the United States was calling for a high pay cap of, in today's money, just under $400,000 or £330,000.
Interviewed this mornin... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38570434 | news_business-38570434 | |
Veganuary: Is following a vegan diet for a month worth it? - BBC News | 2017-01-04 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | A record number of people have signed up for Veganuary - swerving meat and dairy for January - but does it do any good? | UK | The Veganuary campaign, encouraging people to try a vegan diet for the month most commonly associated with resolution and change, is under way, with a record 50,000 people signed up.
But can forgoing meat, fish, dairy, eggs and honey for 31 days do any good?
The adverts are on display, supporters on board and partner... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38506418 | news_uk-38506418 | |
Ivan Rogers resignation: Dear Sir, I quit! The resignation quiz - BBC News | 2017-01-04 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | How much do you know about famous resignations? | Magazine | Sir Ivan Rogers has quit his job as British ambassador to the EU, issuing a resignation statement that urged his team to "continue to challenge ill-founded arguments and muddled thinking". But he's not the first person to make headlines with a biting departure.
Test your knowledge about some of history's more celebrat... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-38510071 | news_magazine-38510071 | |
Obituary: Tam Dalyell - BBC News | 2017-01-26 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | Veteran Labour MP who first articulated the West Lothian Question. | UK Politics | Tam Dalyell was a political contradiction, an aristocratic Old Etonian who became a socialist politician.
It was he who articulated what became known as the West Lothian Question, which festered at the heart of Scotland's relationship with Westminster.
A former Conservative activist, he became a thorn in the side of ... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-29367988 | news_uk-politics-29367988 | |
Donald Trump and Theresa May - Do opposites attract? - BBC News | 2017-01-26 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | The prime minister has joked that 'opposites attract', but how will she get on with Donald Trump? | UK Politics | As she made her way across the Atlantic, Theresa May joked with the press pack on her flight that "sometimes opposites attract".
A wisecracking way of trying to cover the question about how she and Donald Trump can work together - the reality TV star billionaire and the self-described hard working vicar's daughter.
V... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-38760718 | news_uk-politics-38760718 | |
Brexit white paper: Climbdown or goodwill gesture - BBC News | 2017-01-26 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | Giving MPs a white paper is a clear concession by Theresa May but one that is unlikely to affect her Brexit timetable or damage her authority. | UK Politics | It was only yesterday that the Brexit Secretary, David Davis, told MPs it just might all be a bit tricky to have a White Paper, a formal document outlining the government's plans for Brexit, and stick to the timetable they want to pursue.
Rebel Remainers though were "delighted", that, stealing Jeremy Corbyn's thunder,... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-38747976 | news_uk-politics-38747976 | |
Theresa May's Brexit speech: What does it mean for free trade? - BBC News | 2017-01-18 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | BBC Economics Correspondent Andrew Walker answers your questions on Theresa May's Brexit speech. | UK | This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May confirmed that the final deal would be put to the vote in Parliament
Following Theresa May's widely anticipated speech on Brexit on Tuesday, you sent us your questions.
The impact on free trade was the most aske... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38658697 | news_uk-38658697 | |
Is free trade good or bad? - BBC News | 2017-01-18 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | Free trade has been a dominant part of the post-WW2 global economy, but it is now being challenged. | Business | Trade makes the world go round, but how free can it remain?
Free trade is something of a sacred cow in the economics profession.
Moving towards it, rather slowly, has also been one of the dominant features of the post-World War Two global economy.
Now there are new challenges to that development.
The UK is leaving ... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38209407 | news_business-38209407 | |
Theresa May's Brexit 'deal or no deal' - BBC News | 2017-01-18 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | Theresa May's long-awaited speech on her strategy for Brexit leads Wednesday's front pages. | The Papers | Theresa May set out her Brexit strategy in a speech in London
Theresa May's Brexit speech is pretty much the only story in town, at least as far as the front pages are concerned.
It is the tough rhetoric which captures the headlines.
The Times headline sums up her message to the EU as "Give us a fair deal or you'll ... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-38659108 | news_blogs-the-papers-38659108 | |
All aboard the China-to-London freight train - BBC News | 2017-01-18 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | The Yiwu-to-Barking express is the newest way to send your freight from China to Europe. | Business | It's not on a boat, it's not on a plane, it's on a train. The newest way to send your freight from China to Europe involves spending 15 days on a train that doesn't have a buffet car in sight.
On 3 January in Yiwu in eastern China, a bright orange locomotive pulling 44 containers laden with suitcases, clothes and an a... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38654176 | news_business-38654176 | |
Mexico and Mr Trump: What will happen to trade ties? - BBC News | 2017-01-05 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | Caroline Bayley reports on the impact the Nafta trade deal has had in Mexico, and what its potential demise under US President-elect Trump would mean for the country. | Business | Donald Trump is not popular in Mexico
Mexico is being blamed by President-elect Donald Trump for taking jobs from the US.
He's been putting pressure on US companies not to move jobs south, and this week Ford announced it was investing in its factory in Michigan rather than building a new plant in Mexico.
During his ... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38507482 | news_business-38507482 | |
Veganuary: Is following a vegan diet for a month worth it? - BBC News | 2017-01-05 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | A record number of people have signed up for Veganuary - swerving meat and dairy for January - but does it do any good? | UK | The Veganuary campaign, encouraging people to try a vegan diet for the month most commonly associated with resolution and change, is under way, with a record 50,000 people signed up.
But can forgoing meat, fish, dairy, eggs and honey for 31 days do any good?
The adverts are on display, supporters on board and partner... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38506418 | news_uk-38506418 | |
Ivan Rogers resignation: Dear Sir, I quit! The resignation quiz - BBC News | 2017-01-05 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | How much do you know about famous resignations? | Magazine | Sir Ivan Rogers has quit his job as British ambassador to the EU, issuing a resignation statement that urged his team to "continue to challenge ill-founded arguments and muddled thinking". But he's not the first person to make headlines with a biting departure.
Test your knowledge about some of history's more celebrat... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-38510071 | news_magazine-38510071 | |
Obituary: Tam Dalyell - BBC News | 2017-01-27 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | Veteran Labour MP who first articulated the West Lothian Question. | UK Politics | Tam Dalyell was a political contradiction, an aristocratic Old Etonian who became a socialist politician.
It was he who articulated what became known as the West Lothian Question, which festered at the heart of Scotland's relationship with Westminster.
A former Conservative activist, he became a thorn in the side of ... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-29367988 | news_uk-politics-29367988 | |
Donald Trump and Theresa May - Do opposites attract? - BBC News | 2017-01-27 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | The prime minister has joked that 'opposites attract', but how will she get on with Donald Trump? | UK Politics | As she made her way across the Atlantic, Theresa May joked with the press pack on her flight that "sometimes opposites attract".
A wisecracking way of trying to cover the question about how she and Donald Trump can work together - the reality TV star billionaire and the self-described hard working vicar's daughter.
V... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-38760718 | news_uk-politics-38760718 | |
India serial killings: Could 'house of horrors' accused be innocent? - BBC News | 2017-01-11 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | A new documentary explores whether one of two men accused of serial murders is innocent. | India | The murders were discovered after children went missing from Nithari
Ten years ago, India was gripped by serial murders in Noida, a wealthy suburb of the capital Delhi, where at least 19 children and women were raped and killed.
Businessman Moninder Singh Pandher, in whose house the murders took place, and his manser... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-38529255 | news_world-asia-india-38529255 | |
Could a national maximum wage work? - BBC News | 2017-01-11 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | Jeremy Corbyn’s call on Radio 4’s Today programme for a high earnings cap is not a unique position. Franklin D Roosevelt called for something similar. | Business | In 1942, Franklin D Roosevelt - not known as a Socialist radical, though he had his moments - proposed that anyone earning over $25,000 should be taxed at 100%.
Effectively, the President of the United States was calling for a high pay cap of, in today's money, just under $400,000 or £330,000.
Interviewed this mornin... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38570434 | news_business-38570434 | |
Newspaper headlines: Trump to 'make Brexit great' with trade deal - BBC News | 2017-01-15 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | Donald Trump's first UK interview is one of many stories featured on Monday's front pages. | The Papers | President-elect Donald Trump is making the headlines on several of Monday's front pages.
His pledge to offer Britain a "quick" trade deal dominates the front page of the Times.
The president-elect tells the paper that Brexit will be a "great thing" and predicts that other countries will follow Britain's lead in leavi... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-38632547 | news_blogs-the-papers-38632547 | |
Is it OK to watch porn in public? - BBC News | 2017-01-15 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | How would you feel if the person sitting next to you on the bus was watching porn - and what would you do about it? | Magazine | It's no secret that lots of people watch pornography on the internet. It's usually something done behind closed doors - but how would you feel about someone watching porn in public? The BBC's Siobhann Tighe describes a troubling experience on a London bus.
It had been a long day at work. I got on the bus at 7.30 in th... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-38611265 | news_magazine-38611265 | |
Brexit: Berlin business leaders unimpressed with UK's message - BBC News | 2017-01-23 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | An appeal over a post-Brexit trade deal was met with sniggers in Berlin, Damien McGuinness writes. | Business | Two British officials failed to win favour from German business leaders in Berlin
The distinguished audience members were too polite to heckle. But the eye rolling, frowns and audible tutting made it quite clear how the Brexiteers' message was going down with German business leaders.
Owen Paterson, a former minister ... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38707997 | news_business-38707997 | |
100 things we didn't know last year - BBC News | 2017-01-01 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | Each week we publish a list of 10 things we didn't know the week before. Here are 100 of our favourites from 2016. | Magazine | Interesting and unexpected facts from daily news stories are collected in the BBC's regular feature, 10 things we didn't know last week. Here is a selection of the best from 2016.
1. You could probably outrun a Tyrannosaurus Rex.
2. Ronald Reagan suggested that Margaret Thatcher read Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy in... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-38315407 | news_magazine-38315407 | |
Theresa May's Brexit speech: What does it mean for free trade? - BBC News | 2017-01-19 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | BBC Economics Correspondent Andrew Walker answers your questions on Theresa May's Brexit speech. | UK | This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May confirmed that the final deal would be put to the vote in Parliament
Following Theresa May's widely anticipated speech on Brexit on Tuesday, you sent us your questions.
The impact on free trade was the most aske... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38658697 | news_uk-38658697 | |
Is free trade good or bad? - BBC News | 2017-01-19 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | Free trade has been a dominant part of the post-WW2 global economy, but it is now being challenged. | Business | Trade makes the world go round, but how free can it remain?
Free trade is something of a sacred cow in the economics profession.
Moving towards it, rather slowly, has also been one of the dominant features of the post-World War Two global economy.
Now there are new challenges to that development.
The UK is leaving ... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38209407 | news_business-38209407 | |
Mexico and Mr Trump: What will happen to trade ties? - BBC News | 2017-01-06 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | Caroline Bayley reports on the impact the Nafta trade deal has had in Mexico, and what its potential demise under US President-elect Trump would mean for the country. | Business | Donald Trump is not popular in Mexico
Mexico is being blamed by President-elect Donald Trump for taking jobs from the US.
He's been putting pressure on US companies not to move jobs south, and this week Ford announced it was investing in its factory in Michigan rather than building a new plant in Mexico.
During his ... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38507482 | news_business-38507482 | |
Bernie Ecclestone: Why F1's titanic leader was loved and loathed - BBC Sport | 2017-01-24 | None | Bye, bye, Bernie. F1's revolutionary, roguish leader has finally vacated the throne he created - so how will he be remembered? | null | Bernie Ecclestone stands a little under 5ft 3in tall but for 40 years has wielded a giant influence in Formula 1 with canniness, wit and not a little menace.
At times, Ecclestone has had close to absolute power. So the end of his reign following the takeover of the sport by US giant Liberty Media represents a seismic ... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/38721123 | rt_formula1_38721123 | |
Was Buzzfeed right on Donald Trump dossier? - BBC News | 2017-01-12 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | Buzzfeed's decision to publish the Donald Trump dossier raises many questions about modern journalism. | Entertainment & Arts | Donald Trump has criticised the decision to publish the dossier
Was Buzzfeed right to publish the Trump dossier?
That comes down to editorial judgement, which is to news what eggs are to an omelette - the essential ingredient.
That said, I opened this post with a question which I will not answer - partly because I w... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-38600531 | news_entertainment-arts-38600531 | |
Does Catholic praise for Mary Magdalene show progress towards women priests? - BBC News | 2017-01-12 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | Does increasing honour paid to Mary Magdalene in the Catholic Church show progress towards women priests? | UK | The emotional scene in John's Gospel in which Jesus calls to the grieving Mary Magdalene by name and she tries to touch him has inspired many artists. This is Titian's interpretation.
The gospels depict Mary Magdalene as one of Jesus' closest companions. Her emotional encounter with the risen Jesus and her supposed si... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38528682 | news_uk-38528682 | |
What does post-truth mean for a philosopher? - BBC News | 2017-01-12 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | How are philosophers meant to make sense of the post-truth world? AC Grayling says he fears the worst and blames social media. | Education & Family | AC Grayling says a post-truth world threatens the "fabric of democracy"
"Post-truth" has come to describe a type of campaigning that has turned the political world upside down.
Fuelled by emotive arguments rather than fact-checks, it was a phrase that tried to capture the gut-instinct, anti-establishment politics tha... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-38557838 | news_education-38557838 | |
Is it OK to watch porn in public? - BBC News | 2017-01-16 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | How would you feel if the person sitting next to you on the bus was watching porn - and what would you do about it? | Magazine | It's no secret that lots of people watch pornography on the internet. It's usually something done behind closed doors - but how would you feel about someone watching porn in public? The BBC's Siobhann Tighe describes a troubling experience on a London bus.
It had been a long day at work. I got on the bus at 7.30 in th... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-38611265 | news_magazine-38611265 | |
Newspaper headlines: Trump to 'make Brexit great' with trade deal - BBC News | 2017-01-16 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | Donald Trump's first UK interview is one of many stories featured on Monday's front pages. | The Papers | President-elect Donald Trump is making the headlines on several of Monday's front pages.
His pledge to offer Britain a "quick" trade deal dominates the front page of the Times.
The president-elect tells the paper that Brexit will be a "great thing" and predicts that other countries will follow Britain's lead in leavi... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-38632547 | news_blogs-the-papers-38632547 | |
Pakistan's bloody week: Who is really to blame? - BBC News | 2017-02-17 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | The Pakistani military points the finger at Afghanistan and India, but some believe the answer is more complex. | Asia | More than 100 people have been killed across Pakistan since Sunday in a series of deadly militant attacks
As Pakistan picks up the pieces from Thursday evening's devastating bomb attack at the 800-year-old shrine of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar, the country's managers are looking for scapegoats abroad.
And the military has o... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-39003673 | news_world-asia-39003673 | |
What will the BP board decide to pay Bob Dudley this year? - BBC News | 2017-02-07 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | The group chief executive's pay award will shed light on the executive pay debate. | Business | If BP group chief executive Bob Dudley was paid £14m for delivering a $6.5bn (£5.3bn)* loss last year, what on earth will he get paid for delivering a profit in 2017?
The answer to this will shed a lot of light on the politically current and intense debate around executive pay.
A year ago, Mr Dudley became the unwill... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38895706 | news_business-38895706 | |
Did Trump win because his name came first in key states? - BBC News | 2017-02-25 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | A leading US political scientists thinks Donald Trump is president because his name came first on the ballot in some critical swing states. | Magazine | One of the world's leading political scientists believes Donald Trump most likely won the US presidential election for a very simple reason, writes Hannah Sander - his name came first on the ballot in some critical swing states.
Jon Krosnick has spent 30 years studying how voters choose one candidate rather than anoth... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-39082465 | news_magazine-39082465 | |
Unilever stung into action by Kraft - BBC News | 2017-02-22 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | Kraft Heinz's failed bid for Unilever has forced the Anglo-Dutch company to focus on the bottom line. | Business | Unilever is behind some of Britain's best-known brands
Think of Kraft Heinz's assault on Unilever as a slap in the face for management. It was short-lived, shocking, and will smart for a good while yet.
It's a slap that says "we think we can do a better job for your shareholders than you". That is not a message you w... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39056240 | news_business-39056240 | |
Russia looms large behind Flynn affair - BBC News | 2017-02-14 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | Mike Flynn's resignation won't put to rest wider questions about the Trump administration's connection with Russia. | US & Canada | As with any resignation there are a thousand small, but nevertheless important questions. Most are of the who-knew-what-and-when variety. But with this astonishing fall from grace there is one big overarching question. I'll save that best bit for last.
The small questions concern whether Donald Trump knew about the ca... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38974215 | news_world-us-canada-38974215 | |
FA reform: MPs pass 'no confidence' motion after House of Commons debate - BBC Sport | 2017-02-10 | None | A motion of "no confidence" in the Football Association is passed by MPs debating the organisation's ability to reform itself. | null | A motion of "no confidence" in the Football Association has been passed by MPs debating the organisation's ability to reform itself.
While the motion is largely symbolic, MPs have warned legislation will be brought in if changes are not made.
Sports Minister Tracey Crouch has said the FA could lose £30m-£40m of publi... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/38920489 | rt_football_38920489 | |
Germany warns the City over Brexit risk - BBC News | 2017-02-10 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | A Bundesbank executive says London is likely to stop being the “gateway to Europe” and warns the UK against a post-Brexit “regulatory race to the bottom”. | Business | One of Germany's most senior banking regulators has warned London that it is likely to lose its role as "the gateway to Europe" for vital financial services.
Dr Andreas Dombret, executive board member for the German central bank, the Bundesbank, said that even if banking rules were "equivalent" between the UK and the ... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38925440 | news_business-38925440 | |
Leicester City: What has changed at the Premier League champions? - BBC Sport | 2017-02-10 | None | Eight months after leading Leicester to the title, Claudio Ranieri is battling to prevent his side being relegated. So what has changed? | null | Last updated on .From the section Leicester
Eight months after celebrating a Premier League title win that ranks among the greatest of all sporting achievements, Leicester find themselves firmly mired in a relegation battle.
Manager Claudio Ranieri this week received a vote of confidence, the club insisting he retain... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/38879315 | rt_football_38879315 | |
Trump's America: Are things as bad as he says? - BBC News | 2017-02-10 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | Trump decries urban violence, terrorism and police shootings. Is his image of 'American carnage' fair? | US & Canada | This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'This American carnage stops right here,' Donald Trump said at his inauguration
During his presidential campaign, and since taking office, Donald Trump has repeatedly warned of the dangers facing the United States.
"I have ... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38911708 | news_world-us-canada-38911708 | |
Trump travel ban: What did we learn from the ruling? - BBC News | 2017-02-10 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | Anthony Zurcher explains three things we learned (and two we didn't) from the court ruling. | US & Canada | Demonstrators spell out "No Muslim Ban" at a protest in Boston
Federal circuit courts usually toil in anonymity. They are a legal rest stop for landmark cases on the way to the Supreme Court.
But this week it was different. All eyes were on three judges of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, who, for a brief moment, ... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38927778 | news_world-us-canada-38927778 | |
Why did Turkey hold a referendum? - BBC News | 2017-02-10 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | The BBC's Mark Lowen explains why a draft new constitution for Turkey had such fierce opposition. | Europe | The changes give sweeping new to powers Mr Erdogan
A new draft constitution that significantly increases the powers of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been approved by voters in a referendum. Here, the BBC's Turkey correspondent, Mark Lowen, explains why this was such a bitterly-contested process.
In one b... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-38883556 | news_world-europe-38883556 | |
Did Trump win because his name came first in key states? - BBC News | 2017-02-26 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | A leading US political scientists thinks Donald Trump is president because his name came first on the ballot in some critical swing states. | Magazine | One of the world's leading political scientists believes Donald Trump most likely won the US presidential election for a very simple reason, writes Hannah Sander - his name came first on the ballot in some critical swing states.
Jon Krosnick has spent 30 years studying how voters choose one candidate rather than anoth... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-39082465 | news_magazine-39082465 | |
Newspaper headlines: House sales 'slump', Tony Blair Brexit speech and NHS staff 'crisis' - BBC News | 2017-02-18 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | A slowdown in home sales, fears over recruitment of GPs and nurses, and Tony Blair's Brexit speech attract headlines. | The Papers | Tony Blair's rallying cry to people who want to defy Brexit goes down like a lead balloon in many of Saturday's papers.
According to the Daily Express, "yesterday's man has no place in modern Britain".
The paper cites a poll which, it says, demonstrates that more than two-thirds of voters now want the government to p... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-39011206 | news_blogs-the-papers-39011206 | |
Who is trolling the Pope? - BBC News | 2017-02-18 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | Posters and spoof news stories criticising the Pope have been springing up across Rome. What's going on? | Magazine | Earlier this month posters criticising the Pope sprang up across Rome, and a spoof news story mocking the pontiff was sent to the city's cardinals. Christopher Lamb asks what it's all about.
I was shocked when I saw them.
I was sitting just a few rows behind a nun on a tram, when it stopped alongside some posters of ... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-38995877 | news_magazine-38995877 | |
Pakistan's bloody week: Who is really to blame? - BBC News | 2017-02-18 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | The Pakistani military points the finger at Afghanistan and India, but some believe the answer is more complex. | Asia | More than 100 people have been killed across Pakistan since Sunday in a series of deadly militant attacks
As Pakistan picks up the pieces from Thursday evening's devastating bomb attack at the 800-year-old shrine of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar, the country's managers are looking for scapegoats abroad.
And the military has o... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-39003673 | news_world-asia-39003673 | |
Does India have a problem with false rape claims? - BBC News | 2017-02-08 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | There has been an increase in false rape reports against men in India - but do the figures tell the real story behind India's rape crisis? | Magazine | After the infamous 2012 gang rape of a student on a bus in Delhi, the number of rape cases reported to police in India rose sharply. But one survey concluded that in Delhi, in 2013-14, more than half of these reports were "false" - fuelling claims by male activists that women are alleging rape in order to extort money ... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-38796457 | news_magazine-38796457 | |
What really happened when Swedes tried six-hour days? - BBC News | 2017-02-08 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | Sweden has been experimenting with six-hour days but now the trials are over, has it really worked? | Business | Emilie Telander (right) says she is more tired now she is back on eight-hour days
Sweden has been experimenting with six-hour days, with workers getting the chance to work fewer hours on full pay, but now the most high-profile two-year trial has ended - has it all been too good to be true?
Assistant nurse Emilie Tela... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38843341 | news_business-38843341 | |
What will the BP board decide to pay Bob Dudley this year? - BBC News | 2017-02-08 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | The group chief executive's pay award will shed light on the executive pay debate. | Business | If BP group chief executive Bob Dudley was paid £14m for delivering a $6.5bn (£5.3bn)* loss last year, what on earth will he get paid for delivering a profit in 2017?
The answer to this will shed a lot of light on the politically current and intense debate around executive pay.
A year ago, Mr Dudley became the unwill... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38895706 | news_business-38895706 | |
Germany warns the City over Brexit risk - BBC News | 2017-02-11 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | A Bundesbank executive says London is likely to stop being the “gateway to Europe” and warns the UK against a post-Brexit “regulatory race to the bottom”. | Business | One of Germany's most senior banking regulators has warned London that it is likely to lose its role as "the gateway to Europe" for vital financial services.
Dr Andreas Dombret, executive board member for the German central bank, the Bundesbank, said that even if banking rules were "equivalent" between the UK and the ... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38925440 | news_business-38925440 | |
Trump's America: Are things as bad as he says? - BBC News | 2017-02-11 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | Trump decries urban violence, terrorism and police shootings. Is his image of 'American carnage' fair? | US & Canada | This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'This American carnage stops right here,' Donald Trump said at his inauguration
During his presidential campaign, and since taking office, Donald Trump has repeatedly warned of the dangers facing the United States.
"I have ... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38911708 | news_world-us-canada-38911708 | |
Trump travel ban: What did we learn from the ruling? - BBC News | 2017-02-11 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | Anthony Zurcher explains three things we learned (and two we didn't) from the court ruling. | US & Canada | Demonstrators spell out "No Muslim Ban" at a protest in Boston
Federal circuit courts usually toil in anonymity. They are a legal rest stop for landmark cases on the way to the Supreme Court.
But this week it was different. All eyes were on three judges of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, who, for a brief moment, ... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38927778 | news_world-us-canada-38927778 | |
Why did Turkey hold a referendum? - BBC News | 2017-02-11 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | The BBC's Mark Lowen explains why a draft new constitution for Turkey had such fierce opposition. | Europe | The changes give sweeping new to powers Mr Erdogan
A new draft constitution that significantly increases the powers of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been approved by voters in a referendum. Here, the BBC's Turkey correspondent, Mark Lowen, explains why this was such a bitterly-contested process.
In one b... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-38883556 | news_world-europe-38883556 | |
Russia looms large behind Flynn affair - BBC News | 2017-02-15 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | Mike Flynn's resignation won't put to rest wider questions about the Trump administration's connection with Russia. | US & Canada | As with any resignation there are a thousand small, but nevertheless important questions. Most are of the who-knew-what-and-when variety. But with this astonishing fall from grace there is one big overarching question. I'll save that best bit for last.
The small questions concern whether Donald Trump knew about the ca... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38974215 | news_world-us-canada-38974215 | |
The pull of Putin - BBC News | 2017-02-15 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | What attracts some Western politicians to the President of Russia? | Europe | Donald Trump's willingness to build better relations with Russia is threatening to turn US foreign policy on its head. His openness towards Vladimir Putin has dismayed most of the foreign policy establishment in Washington. But it's now shared by some European politicians, not all of them far-right extremists, in Franc... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-38969166 | news_world-europe-38969166 | |
Winston Churchill's views on aliens revealed in lost essay - BBC News | 2017-02-15 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | A newly unearthed essay by Winston Churchill reveals he was open to the possibility of life on other planets. | Science & Environment | Churchill wrote the first draft in 1939, as Europe headed towards war
A newly unearthed essay by Winston Churchill reveals he was open to the possibility of life on other planets.
In 1939, the year World War Two broke out, Churchill penned a popular science article in which he mused about the likelihood of extra-terr... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-38985425 | news_science-environment-38985425 | |
Jack Barsky: The KGB spy who lived the American dream - BBC News | 2017-02-23 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | The remarkable double life of undercover agent Jack Barsky who lived the American dream at the KGB's expense. | Magazine | It's no secret that the Russians have long tried to plant "sleeper agents" in the US - men and women indistinguishable from normal Americans, who live - on the surface - completely normal lives. But what happens when one of them doesn't want to go home?
Jack Barsky died in September 1955, at the age of 10, and was bur... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-38846022 | news_magazine-38846022 | |
Unilever stung into action by Kraft - BBC News | 2017-02-23 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | Kraft Heinz's failed bid for Unilever has forced the Anglo-Dutch company to focus on the bottom line. | Business | Unilever is behind some of Britain's best-known brands
Think of Kraft Heinz's assault on Unilever as a slap in the face for management. It was short-lived, shocking, and will smart for a good while yet.
It's a slap that says "we think we can do a better job for your shareholders than you". That is not a message you w... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39056240 | news_business-39056240 | |
Crystal Palace: Has the Sam Allardyce effect deserted Palace? - BBC Sport | 2017-02-23 | None | Sam Allardyce has traditionally made an instant impact at clubs - so why is it not happening at Crystal Palace? | null | Historically, if you need a manager to make a quick impact at a club, Big Sam tends to be your man.
Sam Allardyce has enjoyed impressive starts to life at previous clubs, including Bolton, Newcastle, Blackburn and West Ham.
So when Crystal Palace decided Alan Pardew was no longer needed in December, it made sense tha... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/38986643 | rt_football_38986643 | |
Driver screams obscenities at BBC presenter Jeremy Vine - BBC News | 2017-02-01 | None | Jeremy Vine posted footage of a driver screaming obscenities at him as he cycled in Kensington. | null | A driver filmed screaming obscenities at BBC presenter Jeremy Vine as he cycled on a narrow road has been found guilty of road rage offences.
Shanique Syrena Pearson, 22, made a gun sign and threatened Mr Vine during the row in Kensington, west London.
Mr Vine filmed the argument using his helmet camera and posted it... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-38830432 | news_uk-england-london-38830432 | |
FA reform: MPs pass 'no confidence' motion after House of Commons debate - BBC Sport | 2017-02-09 | None | A motion of "no confidence" in the Football Association is passed by MPs debating the organisation's ability to reform itself. | null | A motion of "no confidence" in the Football Association has been passed by MPs debating the organisation's ability to reform itself.
While the motion is largely symbolic, MPs have warned legislation will be brought in if changes are not made.
Sports Minister Tracey Crouch has said the FA could lose £30m-£40m of publi... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/38920489 | rt_football_38920489 | |
What really happened when Swedes tried six-hour days? - BBC News | 2017-02-09 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | Sweden has been experimenting with six-hour days but now the trials are over, has it really worked? | Business | Emilie Telander (right) says she is more tired now she is back on eight-hour days
Sweden has been experimenting with six-hour days, with workers getting the chance to work fewer hours on full pay, but now the most high-profile two-year trial has ended - has it all been too good to be true?
Assistant nurse Emilie Tela... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38843341 | news_business-38843341 | |
Jack Barsky: The KGB spy who lived the American dream - BBC News | 2017-02-24 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | The remarkable double life of undercover agent Jack Barsky who lived the American dream at the KGB's expense. | Magazine | It's no secret that the Russians have long tried to plant "sleeper agents" in the US - men and women indistinguishable from normal Americans, who live - on the surface - completely normal lives. But what happens when one of them doesn't want to go home?
Jack Barsky died in September 1955, at the age of 10, and was bur... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-38846022 | news_magazine-38846022 | |
The pull of Putin - BBC News | 2017-02-16 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | What attracts some Western politicians to the President of Russia? | Europe | Donald Trump's willingness to build better relations with Russia is threatening to turn US foreign policy on its head. His openness towards Vladimir Putin has dismayed most of the foreign policy establishment in Washington. But it's now shared by some European politicians, not all of them far-right extremists, in Franc... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-38969166 | news_world-europe-38969166 | |
Winston Churchill's views on aliens revealed in lost essay - BBC News | 2017-02-16 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | A newly unearthed essay by Winston Churchill reveals he was open to the possibility of life on other planets. | Science & Environment | Churchill wrote the first draft in 1939, as Europe headed towards war
A newly unearthed essay by Winston Churchill reveals he was open to the possibility of life on other planets.
In 1939, the year World War Two broke out, Churchill penned a popular science article in which he mused about the likelihood of extra-terr... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-38985425 | news_science-environment-38985425 | |
If 'not now' when will a second referendum take place? - BBC News | 2017-03-17 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Prime Minister Theresa May says "now is not the time" for a second Scottish referendum, but is she willing to sit down with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and discuss a date that suits? | Scotland politics | This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon: "I am up for continued discussion."
Delegates at the SNP conference in Aberdeen are being told today Scotland will have another referendum.
The party faithful are being promised by the leadership that they ... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-39306159 | news_uk-scotland-scotland-politics-39306159 | |
Competing mandates over indyref2 - BBC News | 2017-03-17 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Theresa May's stand-off with Nicola Sturgeon over independence is about competing mandates - and political calculations. | Scotland politics | Theresa May has declared "now is not the time" for Nicola Sturgeon to call for an independence referendum
To govern is to choose. The prime minister has now chosen to exercise her power over the constitution, reserved to Westminster under the Scotland Act 1998.
This is about competing power, competing mandates, compe... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-39297497 | news_uk-scotland-scotland-politics-39297497 | |
Why transgender Africans turned against a famous feminist - BBC News | 2017-03-17 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Nigeria's LGBT community respond to transgender comments made by writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | BBC Trending | A leading African writer has transfixed the internet with her comments on gender - but fellow Nigerians say they feel hurt.
Transgender women in Africa have benefited from "male privilege" because they grew up as men. With this argument, writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie kicked off a vexed discussion, trending everywher... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-39271690 | news_blogs-trending-39271690 | |
'LED street lights are disturbing my sleep' - BBC News | 2017-03-13 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Cities around the world are converting to low-energy LED street lights - but some residents say their sleep is being affected and are fighting back. | Magazine | In towns and cities across the world, the colour of night is changing. Traditional yellow sodium street lights are steadily being replaced by white LED lamps. The new lights use less energy, dramatically cutting carbon emissions and saving money. But not everybody is happy.
"When the leaves left the trees and I tried ... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-38526254 | news_magazine-38526254 | |
London attack: The path from violent crime to killer - BBC News | 2017-03-25 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Westminster attacker Khalid Masood had a history of violence, but how typical is his past of those who go on to carry out acts of terror? | UK | Westminster attacker Khalid Masood had a history of violence, but how typical is his past of those who go on to carry out acts of terror?
Masood, 52, who has been claimed by so-called Islamic State as a "soldier of the Caliphate", had spent time in prison for offences including violent assaults and possession of offen... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39380049 | news_uk-39380049 | |
Scotland's future: What are Theresa May's options? - BBC News | 2017-03-14 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | The prime minister is extremely unlikely to either concede another referendum or rule one out straight away but what are the other possibilities? | UK Politics | If it was designed to grab headlines it certainly did that. Nicola Sturgeon slammed the ball into Theresa May's court on the question of another independence referendum.
There were accusations on both sides yesterday. The first minister accused the prime minister of "intransigence", of being a "brick wall". The PM acc... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-39270725 | news_uk-politics-39270725 | |
Why does everyone keep making Nazi comparisons? - BBC News | 2017-03-14 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | From Turkey to Trump, Boris and Russia - comparisons to Nazi Germany abound in not so diplomatic discourse. | World | Associating someone with Nazis - as in this Turkish TV broadcast - is unlikely to win any logical arguments
Labelling an opponent as "worse than Hitler" or saying a policy is "like Nazi Germany" is hardly new.
But recently, it has crept into political discussion on an international scale.
As a row between Turkey and... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-39266863 | news_world-39266863 | |
'LED street lights are disturbing my sleep' - BBC News | 2017-03-14 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Cities around the world are converting to low-energy LED street lights - but some residents say their sleep is being affected and are fighting back. | Magazine | In towns and cities across the world, the colour of night is changing. Traditional yellow sodium street lights are steadily being replaced by white LED lamps. The new lights use less energy, dramatically cutting carbon emissions and saving money. But not everybody is happy.
"When the leaves left the trees and I tried ... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-38526254 | news_magazine-38526254 | |
Thatcher to inspire UK's Brexit 'divorce bill' talks? - BBC News | 2017-03-10 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Boris Johnson says the UK has an "illustrious precedent" and should reject any Brexit bill demands. | UK Politics | This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.
As Theresa May arrived at her last Brussels summit before pushing the button on Brexit, it is enough to give you a splitting headache.
Not just the complexity of actually getting a deal done, but the ceiling of the brand ne... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-39217083 | news_uk-politics-39217083 | |
David Haye edgy but Tony Bellew must be perfect to win in London - BBC Sport | 2017-03-04 | [] | BBC Sport's boxing correspondent talks about an on-edge David Haye, Tony Bellew's challenge and Amir Khan's surprise. | null | Coverage: Full commentary on BBC Radio 5 live and live text updates on the BBC Sport website.
David Haye has rarely been one to conform.
Before commentating on his first world-title success in November 2007, I remember wandering into the lobby of the hotel in Paris where we were both staying to see Haye lounging arou... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/boxing/39122111 | rt_boxing_39122111 | |
Cherry Healey: 'How being a single mum shattered my prejudices' - BBC News | 2017-03-26 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Single mothers have often been stigmatised and denounced. Cherry Healey explains why she's proud to be one. | Magazine | Single mothers have often been stigmatised and denounced. Cherry Healey explains why she's proud to be one.
I'm a single mum. I'm glad I live in an age and a place where it's OK to admit that.
We have moved on so much, so fast. Once, Margaret Thatcher deemed a single parent family so bad for a child that she felt it ... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-39358725 | news_magazine-39358725 | |
If 'not now' when will a second referendum take place? - BBC News | 2017-03-18 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Prime Minister Theresa May says "now is not the time" for a second Scottish referendum, but is she willing to sit down with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and discuss a date that suits? | Scotland politics | This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon: "I am up for continued discussion."
Delegates at the SNP conference in Aberdeen are being told today Scotland will have another referendum.
The party faithful are being promised by the leadership that they ... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-39306159 | news_uk-scotland-scotland-politics-39306159 | |
Is North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un rational? - BBC News | 2017-03-18 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Analysing the aims of the head of the controversial regime. | Asia | Is Kim Jong-un rational? The new US ambassador to the United Nations thinks he is not. Nikki Haley said after North Korea's simultaneous launch of four ballistic missiles: "This is not a rational person." But is she right?
Kim Jong-un may have many flaws. He is without doubt ruthless - the bereaved relatives of the vi... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-39269783 | news_world-asia-39269783 | |
Jack Barsky: The KGB spy who lived the American dream - BBC News | 2017-03-05 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | The remarkable double life of undercover agent Jack Barsky who lived the American dream at the KGB's expense. | Magazine | It's no secret that the Russians have long tried to plant "sleeper agents" in the US - men and women indistinguishable from normal Americans, who live - on the surface - completely normal lives. But what happens when one of them doesn't want to go home?
Jack Barsky died in September 1955, at the age of 10, and was bur... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-38846022 | news_magazine-38846022 | |
Cherry Healey: 'How being a single mum shattered my prejudices' - BBC News | 2017-03-27 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Single mothers have often been stigmatised and denounced. Cherry Healey explains why she's proud to be one. | Magazine | Single mothers have often been stigmatised and denounced. Cherry Healey explains why she's proud to be one.
I'm a single mum. I'm glad I live in an age and a place where it's OK to admit that.
We have moved on so much, so fast. Once, Margaret Thatcher deemed a single parent family so bad for a child that she felt it ... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-39358725 | news_magazine-39358725 | |
Living loud in China's lively public spaces - BBC News | 2017-03-11 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Even for a long-time foreign resident, the loudness of life in China can still come as a surprise. | China blog | Little chance of a quiet cuppa in some Beijing cafes
There are some societies where people are expected to avoid being noisy in public and they behave accordingly. Then there's China.
This country that I love is many things, but quiet is not one of them.
There are plenty of bustling cities - rammed with millions of ... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-china-blog-39214869 | news_blogs-china-blog-39214869 | |
An absence of peace: When is a war actually a war? - BBC News | 2017-03-11 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | The BBC's defence and diplomatic correspondent examines how armed conflict and war differ. | World | Earlier this month, a relic from World War Two intruded into daily life in north London. A 500lb Luftwaffe bomb was discovered by builders excavating in the leafy suburb of Brondesbury.
Local homes were evacuated, local train services were closed down. Eventually the weapon was made safe and finally removed to be deto... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-39222619 | news_world-39222619 | |
Scotland's future: What are Theresa May's options? - BBC News | 2017-03-15 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | The prime minister is extremely unlikely to either concede another referendum or rule one out straight away but what are the other possibilities? | UK Politics | If it was designed to grab headlines it certainly did that. Nicola Sturgeon slammed the ball into Theresa May's court on the question of another independence referendum.
There were accusations on both sides yesterday. The first minister accused the prime minister of "intransigence", of being a "brick wall". The PM acc... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-39270725 | news_uk-politics-39270725 | |
Why does everyone keep making Nazi comparisons? - BBC News | 2017-03-15 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | From Turkey to Trump, Boris and Russia - comparisons to Nazi Germany abound in not so diplomatic discourse. | World | Associating someone with Nazis - as in this Turkish TV broadcast - is unlikely to win any logical arguments
Labelling an opponent as "worse than Hitler" or saying a policy is "like Nazi Germany" is hardly new.
But recently, it has crept into political discussion on an international scale.
As a row between Turkey and... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-39266863 | news_world-39266863 | |
Mixed-race couple: 'The priest refused to marry us' - BBC News | 2017-03-01 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Trudy and Barclay Patoir met when mixed-race relationships were still taboo. More than 70 years later they reveal the obstacles they overcame. | Magazine | Trudy and Barclay Patoir met during World War Two at a time when mixed-race relationships were still taboo. More than 70 years later they reveal the obstacles they had to overcome to stay together.
When Trudy Menard and Barclay Patoir told friends and family they were going to get married, no-one thought it was a good... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-39003902 | news_magazine-39003902 | |
Thatcher to inspire UK's Brexit 'divorce bill' talks? - BBC News | 2017-03-09 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Boris Johnson says the UK has an "illustrious precedent" and should reject any Brexit bill demands. | UK Politics | This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.
As Theresa May arrived at her last Brussels summit before pushing the button on Brexit, it is enough to give you a splitting headache.
Not just the complexity of actually getting a deal done, but the ceiling of the brand ne... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-39217083 | news_uk-politics-39217083 | |
Is North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un rational? - BBC News | 2017-03-19 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Analysing the aims of the head of the controversial regime. | Asia | Is Kim Jong-un rational? The new US ambassador to the United Nations thinks he is not. Nikki Haley said after North Korea's simultaneous launch of four ballistic missiles: "This is not a rational person." But is she right?
Kim Jong-un may have many flaws. He is without doubt ruthless - the bereaved relatives of the vi... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-39269783 | news_world-asia-39269783 | |
London attack: The path from violent crime to killer - BBC News | 2017-03-24 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Westminster attacker Khalid Masood had a history of violence, but how typical is his past of those who go on to carry out acts of terror? | UK | Westminster attacker Khalid Masood had a history of violence, but how typical is his past of those who go on to carry out acts of terror?
Masood, 52, who has been claimed by so-called Islamic State as a "soldier of the Caliphate", had spent time in prison for offences including violent assaults and possession of offen... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39380049 | news_uk-39380049 | |
Living loud in China's lively public spaces - BBC News | 2017-03-12 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Even for a long-time foreign resident, the loudness of life in China can still come as a surprise. | China blog | Little chance of a quiet cuppa in some Beijing cafes
There are some societies where people are expected to avoid being noisy in public and they behave accordingly. Then there's China.
This country that I love is many things, but quiet is not one of them.
There are plenty of bustling cities - rammed with millions of ... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-china-blog-39214869 | news_blogs-china-blog-39214869 | |
An absence of peace: When is a war actually a war? - BBC News | 2017-03-12 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | The BBC's defence and diplomatic correspondent examines how armed conflict and war differ. | World | Earlier this month, a relic from World War Two intruded into daily life in north London. A 500lb Luftwaffe bomb was discovered by builders excavating in the leafy suburb of Brondesbury.
Local homes were evacuated, local train services were closed down. Eventually the weapon was made safe and finally removed to be deto... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-39222619 | news_world-39222619 | |
Competing mandates over indyref2 - BBC News | 2017-03-16 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Theresa May's stand-off with Nicola Sturgeon over independence is about competing mandates - and political calculations. | Scotland politics | Theresa May has declared "now is not the time" for Nicola Sturgeon to call for an independence referendum
To govern is to choose. The prime minister has now chosen to exercise her power over the constitution, reserved to Westminster under the Scotland Act 1998.
This is about competing power, competing mandates, compe... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-39297497 | news_uk-scotland-scotland-politics-39297497 | |
Why transgender Africans turned against a famous feminist - BBC News | 2017-03-16 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Nigeria's LGBT community respond to transgender comments made by writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | BBC Trending | A leading African writer has transfixed the internet with her comments on gender - but fellow Nigerians say they feel hurt.
Transgender women in Africa have benefited from "male privilege" because they grew up as men. With this argument, writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie kicked off a vexed discussion, trending everywher... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-39271690 | news_blogs-trending-39271690 |
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