Has a solution to plastic pollution been found? Improve your knowledge of English in the news with BBC Learning English. Scientists have discovered an enzyme that could be used to break down some ...
US says it is 'not responsible' for the Turkish lira's dramatic fall. Turkey accuses the US of 'stabbing it in the back'. The White House says it is monitoring the situation. There are also fears ...
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has acknowledged that his company didn't do enough to prevent data misuse. Dan and Catherine teach you the language the world's media is using to discuss ...
Several French media executives and journalists have been suspended or fired because of their alleged involvement with a Facebook group used to bully female colleagues online. Reports say the ...
A man who illegally hunted hundreds of deer in the US has been ordered to watch a Disney film by a judge as part of his punishment. Bambi is an animated movie about a deer whose mother is killed by ...
British scientists have discovered that women who naturally get up early are less likely to develop breast cancer. After an eight-year study, research has concluded that among early risers, only ...
California's requirement that companies listed on the stock market have at least one woman on their board was fought hard by business lobby groups. Well, now the law has passed they are not happy ...
The story President Trump has apologised on behalf of the American people to the newly appointed US Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh for what he called the campaign of political and personal ...
The story Scientists at the American space agency NASA say they are beginning to gather data from Mars after successfully landing a probe on the surface of the red planet. The InSight spacecraft ...
New zoological research has suggested a growing human appetite for the Chinese giant salamander has pushed the world's largest amphibian to the brink of extinction in the wild. The creatures, ...
