Newsademic nr 217 – British and American English edition (with activities) 20th February 2014

Newsademic Features:

- 26 issues in 12 months
- Features stories currently making the international news
- Articles, written in an easy-to-read style, include latest news plus background information and explanation
- Each issue is accompanied by two sets of activities/worksheets and the respective answer keys
- Articles featured reflect no political or religious bias
- Stories are reported factually and every attempt is made to feature both sides of any situation in which opinions differ
- Focus on international news events that shape and affect the world that we all live in today
- Carries no advertising

In this issue:

Near-Earth asteroid fly-by China and Taiwan
U.N.’s North Korea report
Unemployment protest in Bosnia
Optical illusion explained
Giraffe put down
Unmoving jet stream
800,000-year-old footprints
Bio-inspired design and electric fish
Cyprus and reunification
Rare stamp for sale
Homs evacuation
Italy’s new prime minister
Whale watching from space
Bamiyan Buddhas dispute
End-Permian Great Dying
Changing Kazakhstan
New source of Amazon?
French president’s U.S. state visit
Glossary Crossword and Wordsearch Puzzle