BBC | Learning English from the news

Learn how to use the essential English words from the latest international news headlines in your everyday English speaking and writing. There's a new episode every Wednesday.

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ESL 11002669 - [LEFTN] Huge power cuts in Spain and Portugal
ESL 11002670 - [LEFTN] Weight-loss drugs reduce cancer risk, study finds
ESL 11002672 - [LEFTN] Octopuses and fish work together
ESL 11002858 - [LEFTN] Syria: One year since Assad's fall
ESL 11002859 - [LEFTN] Deadly fires in Hong Kong investigated
ESL 11002860 - [LEFTN] First treasure recovered from $20bn sunken ship
ESL 11002861 - [LEFTN] Death penalty for former Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina
ESL 11002868 - [LEFTN] COP30: Are climate talks effective at fighting climate change?
ESL 11002869 - [LEFTN] Fastest glacier melt in modern history
ESL 11002870 - [LEFTN] 'Storm of the century' hits Caribbean
ESL 11002871 - [LEFTN] Historic jewels stolen from Louvre
ESL 11002872 - [LEFTN] Solar and wind beat coal for first time
ESL 11002873 - [LEFTN] Trump's unproven autism claim
ESL 11003029 - [LEFTN] Australia teen social media ban
ESL 11003030 - [LEFTN] Japan bans baby names like Pikachu and Kitty
ESL 11003031 - [LEFTN] 2025: The year's big news stories
ESL 11003032 - [LEFTN] Greenland: Trump clashes with allies
ESL 11003033 - [LEFTN] US seizes Venezuelan president Maduro
ESL 11003034 - [LEFTN] Iran protesters killed
ESL 11003035 - [LEFTN] Doomsday Clock: Highest ever disaster risk
ESL 11002653 - [LEFTN] German far right wins state election
ESL 11002650 - [LEFTN] Third of adults inactive
ESL 11002651 - [LEFTN] Chimps chat like we do
ESL 11002652 - [LEFTN] Rising sea levels disaster for all
ESL 11002654 - [LEFTN] Australia plans kids’ social media ban
ESL 11002655 - [LEFTN] Worst typhoon to hit Shanghai in 75 years
ESL 11002656 - [LEFTN]MrBeast named in lawsuit
ESL 11002657 - [LEFTN] AI critic wins Nobel Prize… for AI
ESL 11002658 - [LEFTN] Earth’s climate defences failing
ESL 11002659 - [LEFTN] India: Bomb threats delay flights
ESL 11002660 - [LEFTN] Lost Maya city found in Mexico
ESL 11002661 - [LEFTN] 7,000 steps can reduce risk of depression
ESL 11002662 - [LEFTN] Kumbh Mela: 400 million to attend world's largest festival
ESL 11002663 - [LEFTN] DeepSeek: Chinese AI app shocks tech world
ESL 11002664 - [LEFTN] Is vaping as bad as smoking cigarettes?
ESL 11002665 - [LEFTN] 50% adults overweight or obese by 2050: Global study
ESL 11002666 - [LEFTN] Woolly mice: Are woolly mammoths next?
ESL 11002667 - [LEFTN] Astronauts home after 9 months in space
ESL 11002668 - [LEFTN] Turkey protests after political rival jailed
ESL 11003284 - [LEFTN] Mass shooting at Mexican pyramids
ESL 11003285 - [LEFTN] Women secretly filmed with new tech
ESL 11003286 - [LEFTN] Bad Bunny's Super Bowl show
ESL 11003287 - [LEFTN] Russia killed opposition leader Alexei Navalny with frog toxin, UK says
ESL 11003288 - [LEFTN] Violence after Mexican drug leader killed
ESL 11003289 - [LEFTN] US-Israel war with Iran
ESL 11003290 - [LEFTN] Global impact of US-Israel war with Iran
ESL 11003291 - [LEFTN] Cuba protests: millions without power
ESL 11003292 - [LEFTN] Earth ‘pushed beyond its limit’ UN warns
ESL 11003293 - [LEFTN] Meta and YouTube lose social media addiction case
ESL 11003295 - [LEFTN] Artemis II takes humans further from Earth than ever before
ESL 11003296 - [LEFTN] Hungary election landslide
ESL 11003338 - [LEFTN] Deadly Ebola virus spreads
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