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Healthcare:

The woman helping Mongolians die with dignity - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-40262012

Miscellaneous:

Yoga: How did it conquer the world and what's changed? - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-40354525

Pesto excluded from liquid ban by Italian airport - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-40365686 This makes sense. From personal experience, do not get between the Genoese and their pesto.

Honorary degree for M*A*S*H actor Alan Alda - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-40353978 From 2017

Australia's obsession with 'big things' - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-39299855

Missing babies: Israel's Yemenite children affair - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-40342143

Queen's Speech 2017: Lettings fees to be banned - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-40354019 As expected, this has just been passed on to the tenants.

Daughter of first baby born on Loganair plane now cabin crew - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-40342666

Music industry:

Festivals dominated by male acts, study shows, as Glastonbury begins - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-40273193

News:

Single parents win benefits cap High Court challenge - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-40367686 From 2017

'I thought I was going to die': Jailed and ransomed in Libya - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-40353265

Politics:

The triumph that wasn't - Theresa May and the general election gamble that failed - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/General_election From the 2017 election

Science:

Why suitcases rock and fall over - puzzle solved - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-40346519

Sport:

Floyd Mayweather v Conor McGregor: Can Crumlin ABC spirit claim Las Vegas bout? - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/boxing/40361031

Football:

Bayern Munich replace English fan's 21-year-old mug - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40348557 They're only evil most of the time.

Wrestling:

Injured off-duty London Bridge police officer gets WWE belt from wrestler Triple H - http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/40352290/injured-off-duty-london-bridge-police-officer-gets-wwe-belt-from-wrestler-triple-h From 2017. Other people who are only evil most of the time.

Cartography:

Some Very Curious Maps of London - https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/some-very-curious-maps-of-london

Food and Drink:

Leave the Abbey, Join the Playground: The Crucial Influence of Foreign Breweries on Belgian Beer - https://www.beeradvocate.com/articles/15690/leave-the-abbey-join-the-playground-the-crucial-influence-of-foreign-breweries-on-belgian-beer/

Miscellaneous:

10 Things I Learned From Arguing With Strangers On Social Media - https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/10-things-i-learned-arguing-strangers-online-tom-moylan/

Exam stress: A revision guide for the anxious - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39921799 This is mostly advising parents to be chill and helpful, rather than being revision strategies.

We should have listened to the broken teenagers - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-39924586

Ian Brady letters: Inside the mind of the Moors Murderer - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39925965

Music:

How many people does it take to write a hit song? - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-39934986

Sport:

Football:

CLUSTERING SHOT CHAINS – DIFFERENT TYPES OF CHANCES AND HOW MUCH THEY ARE WORTH -https://fotbollssiffror.wordpress.com/2017/05/15/clustering-shot-chains-different-types-of-chances-and-how-much-they-are-worth/

Technology:

Hackers Came, but the French Were Prepared - https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/09/world/europe/hackers-came-but-the-french-were-prepared.html?smid=fb-nytimes

Food:

Why Staffordshire oatcakes are being eaten in Arizona - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-39582338

Languages:

#Kazakhstan education ministry establishes working group to transfer alphabet to Latin - https://www.eureporter.co/frontpage/2017/04/21/kazakhstan-education-ministry-establishes-working-group-to-transfer-alphabet-to-latin/

Miscellaneous:

FGM: The mother trying to protect her daughters - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-39282927

The couple who want to rebuild their shattered city - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-39671004

Why are farmers in India protesting with mice and human skulls? - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-39650496 From April 2017

8 things you'll know if you're a Northerner living in the South - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/0cf014f1-c420-4a95-b01f-dffef24e62a2 Every single one of these is the truest thing that ever was true.

MS-13 gang: The story behind one of the world's most brutal street gangs - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39645640

35 Years Of American Death - Mortality rates for leading causes of death in every U.S. county from 1980 to 2014. - https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/mortality-rates-united-states/#2014

Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria - “Somewhere at Google there is a database containing 25 million books and nobody is allowed to read them.” -https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/the-tragedy-of-google-books/523320/ Google, oddly enough, not at fault here.

Music Industry:

UK music industry braced for Brexit - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39418829

News:

Australia unveils major changes to citizenship process - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-39637770 From April 2017

Politics:

Dennis Skinner: Theresa May called an election because of Tory fraud investigation - https://inews.co.uk/opinion/dennis-skinner-theresa-may-called-election-tory-fraud-investigation/ From April 2017

An Open Letter On The Subject Of Tim Farron's 'Homophobia' - https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/jennie-rigg/tim-farron-lgbt-record_b_16095906.html From April 2017, but I still agree with every word she wrote and the general principle is sound.

New NCP analysis – where the polls went wrong - https://www.ncpolitics.uk/2015/11/new-ncp-analysis-where-the-polls-went-wrong.html/ From November 2015, but some interesting data which remains relevant.

French Candidates Talk of ‘Frexit,’ but Le Divorce Would Be Chaotic - https://www.wsj.com/articles/french-candidates-whisper-frexit-but-le-divorce-would-be-chaotic-1492717343 From before the last French election, but still interesting.

Here's Why The General Election Will Actually Be Really Fascinating - https://www.buzzfeed.com/jamesball/heres-why-the-general-election-will-actually-be-really?utm_term=.rakr4zWGn#.tjdBYyKpG From before the 2017 General election so very, very wrong with regard to outcome, but wrong for interesting reasons.

Science:

CASSINI IS READY TO SACRIFICE ITSELF FOR THE GOOD OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM - https://www.wired.com/2017/04/cassini-prepares-sacrifice-good-solar-system/ From April 2017

Sport:

Football:

Ugo Ehiogu: Former England defender dies after suffering cardiac arrest - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39664839 From April 2017. Posting late anyway because … just read his last tweet and know the measure of the man.

Premier League clubs make 'limited progress' over disabled access - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39643089

Tennis:

Serena Williams: How did she compete while pregnant? - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-39653672 The subheading doesn’t correspond with most of the women I know. But the BBC subheading writer and I are in a permanent state of war.

Miscellaneous:

The 'Walter Mittys': Why do some people pose as heroes? - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-38085998

Why every office should scrap its clean desk policy - http://ideas.ted.com/why-every-office-should-scrap-its-clean-desk-policy/

Born addicts: The babies starting life in rehab - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-37851654

Music Industry:

Darryl Jones: The unknown Stone - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-38135674 If you only read one of the links, this is the one I'd recommend.

Politics:

Column: The truth about trade agreements – and why we need them - http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/column-truth-trade-agreements-need/#.WDQyHanfnis.twitter

Science:

HOW TWO TRAILBLAZING PSYCHOLOGISTS TURNED THE WORLD OF DECISION SCIENCE UPSIDE DOWN -
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/11/decision-science-daniel-kahneman-amos-tversky

The Running Conversation in Your Head - https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/11/figuring-out-how-and-why-we-talk-to-ourselves/508487/

Sport:

Cycling:

Laura Kenny back on track at Revolution series after wedding... but is struggling with signatures! -
http://www.eurosport.co.uk/cycling-track/laura-kenny-back-on-track-at-revolution-series-after-wedding.-but-is-struggling-with-signatures_sto5959930/story.shtml

Dame Sarah Storey takes UCI to task for lack of progress in para-cycling -
http://www.eurosport.co.uk/cycling/dame-sarah-storey-takes-uci-to-task-for-lack-of-progress-in-para-cycling_sto5959717/story.shtml