Interesting news topics.

[Guest]

For FTers to list interesting news stories that are not so controversial as to need a thread of their own, nor humorous for the other thread.

Like this:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20156681

[Guest]

BBC china series:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-20103483

[I am Rod Hull]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-20151566

[Jon the Hat]

BBC china series:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-20103483

Grammaticus is a great name.

[Guest]

Muslim fashion magazine outsells vogue in first year.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/fast_track/9764870.stm

Thought I found it more interesting for the football info. Men are banned from Istanbul derby games (maybe all it doesn't say) and the ground is full of women and kids - Isn't that interesting?

[Guest]

Grammaticus is a great name.

Yeah it is. but when he goes out with his wife to a formal party are they announced as Grammartici or Grammarticusses (or is that just when he swears)?

[Guest]

Danny Baker - bitter? He says how much his "co-hosts" get - I wonder how much he earns.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-20173385

[Guest]

Comet crashes (again)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20174201

[I am Rod Hull]

New WWI photographs unveiled

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-20177375

[Guest]

Are one in Eight Australians Really poor?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20255904

Plebs.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20235692

Chinese Women.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-20134699

[Guest]

Japan - the need to lie.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20265725

[Guest]

The Chinese/Japanese Islands.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11341139

I have a lot of contact with young Chinese adults these days, I never before realised that the Chinese hate the Japanese so much.

[Guest]

Want a 500 mile electric car battery. IBM will give you one ....in a decade or so.

http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/04/ibm-races-energy-dept-for-electric-car-battery-bragging-rights.php

At least a big company is helping fight the oil conglomerates.

[Guest]

A real country leader:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20243493

[Guest]

The lost spitfires

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20515659

[ithuriel]

The Chinese/Japanese Islands.

http://www.bbc.co.uk...acific-11341139

I have a lot of contact with young Chinese adults these days, I never before realised that the Chinese hate the Japanese so much.

Spoke to a couple on the net a few years ago, they hated the Japanese and the French for some reason.

[Uncle Phil]

I can't link on my phone, but according to bbc news Monday was the first day in living memory that no violent crime occured in New York City.

[Alexikokopops]

I can't link on my phone, but according to bbc news Monday was the first day in living memory that no violent crime occured in New York City.

Here we go

[Guest MattP]

Here we go

Wow. Amazing turnaround in 20 years.

[I am Rod Hull]

The Chinese/Japanese Islands.

http://www.bbc.co.uk...acific-11341139

I have a lot of contact with young Chinese adults these days, I never before realised that the Chinese hate the Japanese so much.

Spoke to a couple on the net a few years ago, they hated the Japanese and the French for some reason.

The Japs made the Nazis look like girl guides. The atrocities that they inflicted upon the Chinese people during their occupation in the 1930`s-40`s were spectacularly sick.

The raping of Nanking and Unit 731

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/223038.stm

http://news.bbc.co.u...ent/1796044.stm

[Uncle Phil]

Here we go

Ta mi duk.

[Orkneyfox]

http://www.bbc.co.uk...cation-20498359

The league table of education authorities. Says it all really:

BOTTOM FIVE

• Telford and Wrekin 53%
  
• Wakefield 52%
  
• Thurrock 49%
  
• Derby 43%
  
• Coventry 42%
  

Edited 1 December 2012 by Orkneyfox

[Carl the Llama]

Is it too late to make a chant out of that for the match?

[Facecloth]

Is it too late to make a chant out of that for the match?

Simple I know but.

"We know lots more than you

We know lots more than you

We know lots more than you

We know lots more than you!"

or

"Town full of retards

You're from a town full of retards!"

Edited 1 December 2012 by Facecloth

[ozleicester]

not really interesting.. but didnt know where else to put it (thats what she said)

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/wa/15542339/gangnam-lights-spark-safety-fears/