Newsademic nr 218 – British and American English edition (with activities) 6th March 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:

“Well of Martyrs’

Facebook and WhatsApp

Cleaning Mount Everest

Forbes’ billionaire list

China’s air pollution

Anti-government protests in Venezuela

Prehistoric Sistine Chapel

Spending on defence

Mardi Gras

Kepler’s exoplanet haul

Deciphering the Voynich manuscript

The Earth’s oldest rock

Draft protest in Israel

Obama meets the Dalai Lama

Doomsday vault seeds

Chile’s whale graveyard

Mexican walking fish found

U.N.’s Syria aid vote

Mobile World Congress

Glossary Crossword and Wordsearch Puzzle