The British Council can help you to read the news in English! These topical news stories are written by the British Council teaching team every week. They help you expand your news related vocabulary and improve your newspaper reading skills so you can understand news stories the first time round.

This column is printed every Friday in the United Daily News Education Supplement.

 Danger - Unexploded Fruit!

 How about a holiday in space?

 Electric Bikes Clean Up

 French Riot Police Fume at Booze Ban

 Kate and Wills Break Tradition

 Council Poops Anti-Royal Street Party

 Uneasy Peace on the Ivory Coast

 Spiderman does it again!

 'Friday' Nets a Profit

 Footlong Inches Ahead of Big Mac

 Aid workers face uphill battle

 Rebellion brings Libya to the Edge of ware

 "Curveball" throws curveball on Irag

 Chaos in Cario

 Biggest mafia crackdown in history

 Astronomers over the moon about new planet

 Stealth fighter signals new arms race

 Wikileaks causes diplomatic storm

 Down under under water