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Are Facebook doing enough to stop private gun sales?
Firearms are still readily available on Facebook despite recent promises to crackdown.

Crossing into the alien north… of Paris
In most cities, different neighbourhoods have a different character and those who live in them can develop tribal loyalties. Hugh Schofield explains how it works in Paris.

Ghana’s ‘fat-shamed’ bride inspires thousands
Nurse says she will now lose weight for health reasons following internet trolling.

North Korean leader seen smoking again
Kim Jong-un back on the cigarettes despite anti-smoking campaign.

Spanish town’s giant dog dropping goes walkies
Local police on the trail of missing inflatable dog mess.

Five lesser-known driving distractions
Drivers using hand-free phones can become just as distracted as those using handsets, a study suggests. But what other things can ruin a driver’s concentration?

What are the rules on travelling with breast milk?
A mother says she was forced to dump 15 litres of breast milk at Heathrow Airport.

Who needs an 84m-long aircraft?
An estimated 20,000 people have turned out to watch the landing of the world’s biggest plane. But how much demand is there for such a big aircraft?

How much gold is there in London – and where is it?
The world’s biggest bank has agreed to buy a gold vault in London. But how many of these vaults are there, where are they and how much do they hold?

Can the Queen vote in the EU referendum?
The Sun newspaper’s been told off for misleadingly reporting that the Queen backs leaving the EU. But is she allowed to vote in next month’s referendum?

What happens when you’re deported to Britain?
The process of starting from scratch in an unfamiliar country.

How rare are bright blue lobsters?
Canadian fishermen have been celebrating after catching two bright blue lobsters. But just how unusual is this?

Why are women banned from Mount Athos?
Mount Athos in Greece may be the largest area in the world from which women – and female animals – are banned. What lies behind the ban?

Do you inherit your parent’s mental illness?
Are mental health problems hereditary? For James Longman it’s a very personal question.

The plan to ban work emails out of hours
France is about to introduce rules stopping employees from sending work-related emails at night and weekends.

Is it legal to force women to wear high heels at work?
A 27-year-old woman working for a City firm says she was sent home for refusing to wear high heels. But is this legal, fair or healthy?

Creating the world’s new chess capital
For many years the nucleus of the chess world was the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe – but now a new chess capital is emerging in America’s Midwest.

Why is Russia so desperate to win Eurovision?
Russia has spared no expense to produce an expertly staged Eurovision performance this year. Winning seems to be a national priority, but why?

The man who helps students to cheat
Marek Jezek writes dissertations for £2,500 a time. Then students hand them in as their own.

The personal SOS messages the BBC used to send
Before mobile phones, the BBC’s SOS radio messages were the only way some people found out about their relatives’ illnesses or accidents.

The albino who confronted a witchdoctor
Stephane Ebongue has albinism and fled Cameroon to escape being sacrificed – years later he returned to ask a witchdoctor why people like him are used in “magic” potions.

The Irishman who faked his own kidnapping
When a bedraggled man appeared at the side of a road in Ireland claiming he had been abducted, a bizarre tale of fraud and a fake kidnapping started to unfold.

Is there a Eurovision migrant effect?
Poland’s Eurovision song got only seven votes from national juries, but more than 200 in the televote. Did Polish migrants help?

Is there a sexist data crisis?
There is a “black hole” in our knowledge of the lives of women and girls around the world, campaigners say, because no-one is collecting the relevant data.

Viewpoint: Are e-cigarettes really a menace?
E-cigarettes, devices that give you a nicotine-hit by heating up a liquid which you then inhale, have become all the rage.

The vet, the tortoise and the airport
The first airport, the last mail boat and the oldest land animal – St Helena as witnessed by Joe Hollins, the most remote vet in the world.

The teenagers who poison themselves
The number of young women in the UK who are poisoning themselves is reportedly on the rise. Why do they do it?

The beautiful flower with an ugly past
How the cornflower has become the centre of a political controversy in Austria.

How one man saved a generation of premature babies
For years doctors in the US made little attempt to save the lives of premature babies, but there was one place distressed parents could turn for help – a sideshow on Coney Island.

The US veterans going back to live in Vietnam
More than 40 years after the end of the Vietnam war dozens of ageing former American soldiers have gone back – and have succeeded in finding peace.

South Korea launches ‘K-pop academy’ in Mexico
Cultural centre says pop star “training” is a new way to spread Korean culture.

Danish plans for asylum-seeker football league
Pilot project aims to integrate migrants into Danish society.

Punctuation protest against far right trolls on Twitter
Twitter users are adding parentheses to protest against anti-Semitic sentiment.

Russian PM: ‘No money for pensions, but have a good day!’
Dmitriy Medvedev comments to pensioner sparks uproar on Internet

Quiz of the week’s news
The Magazine’s weekly quiz of the news, 7 days 7 questions.

10 things we didn’t know last week
Stanley Kubrick wanted to film his own version of Pinocchio, plus more news nuggets.

Gun rights: ‘It’s like telling someone not to breathe’
Filmmaker Dan Murdoch visits a gun range in Dallas.

Operation Solomon: Airlifting 14,000 Jews out of Ethiopia
In 1991, Israel organised the airlift of more than 14,000 Ethiopian Jews – Daniel Nadawo was one of them.