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Learning English from the News Episodes

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    Banning smoking for life

    The UK government has voted to ban the sale of tobacco to anyone born after 2009.

  2. Banning 'steak'

    Plant-based food can no longer have meat-based names in France.

  3. Bangladesh protests: PM quits

    Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has quit and escaped the country.

  4. Baltimore bridge collapse

    Six people are missing after a ship caused a bridge to collapse in Baltimore, USA.

  5. Bad bosses make people quit

    New research says people are quitting their jobs because of a bad boss.

  6. BA flight to Germany mistakenly flies to Scotland

    Tom and Dan discuss the story and teach you vocabulary to talk about it.

  7. Austria: Lockdown for unvaccinated

    Two million people who have not been vaccinated have been placed in lockdown in Austria.

  8. Australian watchdog sues Google over location data

    Dan and Catherine teach you the language the media is using to discuss this story.

  9. Australia plans kids' social media ban

    Australian Prime Minister announces plans to ban children from social media sites

  10. Australia hit by record floods

    Around 18,000 people have been evacuated from severe floods in Australia.

  11. Aung San Suu Kyi: 4 years in prison

    Deposed Myanmar leader has been sentenced after widely criticised trial.

  12. Athlete's 200m 'record' only 185m

    Neil and Georgina look at the vocabulary in the news around this story.

  13. Astronauts home after 9 months in space

    After nine months in space, two Nasa astronauts have finally arrived back on Earth.

  14. Apple to hinder Facebook web tracking

    Dan and Catherine bring you the language you need to talk about this story.

  15. Apple issues warning about FaceTime problem

    Catherine and Dan teach you the language the media is using to discuss this story.

  16. Apple announces the death of iTunes

    Dan and Catherine teach you the language the media is using to discuss this story.

  17. Antarctic ice melting

    Ice the size of Greenland is missing from Antarctica because of climate change.

  18. Ancient stellar collision makes waves

    Two stars hitting each other has been described as 鈥榗ataclysmic鈥�. What does that mean?

  19. Amazon water emergency

    The Amazon has its lowest water levels in 121 years. Learn how to talk about the story.

  20. Alzheimer's drug hope

    New drugs mean that Alzheimer's could soon be treated as easily as asthma and diabetes.

  21. Air pollution takes three years off life

    Researchers have used a new method to model the impact of pollution on our health.

  22. AI critic wins Nobel Prize... for AI

    A man has won a Nobel Prize for his work on AI, though he now warns of its dangers.

  23. Afghanistan: Taliban retake Kabul

    The Taliban have retaken the Afghan capital 20 years after being removed.

  24. Afghan female footballers get UK visas

    A team of female footballers who fled the Taliban have been told they can live in the UK.

  25. Adele gets Spotify to stop album shuffle

    Adele has persuaded Spotify to take the shuffle button off all album pages.

  26. Abba: Pop superstars are back

    ABBA, pop superstars of 70s, are back after 40 years with new album and planned tour.

  27. A royal romance

    Prince Harry, fifth in line to the throne, is going to marry Meghan Markle

  28. A real-life secret Santa

    Someone's been leaving presents for strangers around a village in the UK.

  29. A plan to bring live music back

    British events promoter wants to use compulsory coronavirus testing at music festivals.

  30. A minimum price for alcohol in Scotland

    Neil and Catherine explain vocabulary and talk about Scotland's new health-related change

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