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21/02/2016

Emma Barnett presents 5 live's rundown of the top 40 news, politics, sport and showbiz stories of the week that are making the biggest impact across social media and online.

Emma Barnett presents 5 live's rundown of the top 40 news, sport, political and showbiz stories of the week that are making the biggest impact across social media and online.
This week her guests are TV critic, Kevin O'Sullivan and Bea Appleby, editor of Female Lead.com.

This week's chart:
40 The Messi-Suarez penalty - everyone is still talking about his unusual tactics
39 The war in Yemen - Al Qaeda takes control of one city and social media highlights the plight of starving zoo animals in another
38 Scientists invent a storage system that'll save your data for at least 13 billion years
37 A picture of President Obama puffing on a ciggy as Russia uses him in an anti-smoking campaign
36 Teenwolf - the US teenage werewolves are back on TV
35 OJ Simpson returns to the dock as 大象传媒 2 revisits one of America's most famous trials
34 Support the puff - black women rally round one schoolgirl's hairdo
33 Marvel's Daredevil - the trailer for season 2
32 The Ugandan elections. President Museveni wins again
31 A drunk monkey causes pandemonium in a Brazilian bar
30 Star Wars Episode VIII goes into production
29 Life on earth after a nuclear war - the TV show The 100 is back
28 Blowing the lid off sexual harassment at work - the film "Confirmation" re-ignites the debate in America
27 Roots: thirty years on the iconic story of slavery gets an TV update
26 Migration - as Europe gets tough - hundreds are turned away at the Croatian border
25 Slam dunk - basketball shows off its ultimate skills
24 RIP Big Ang - the cameras stay focused on a reality star till the very end
23 Prize winning photo of the year - a refugee baby passed to safety through a barbed wire fence
22 Rolex robbery - a video shows thieves robbing a man of his fifteen grand watch
21 Hairy panic - tumbleweed overwhelms a town in Australia
20 A baby dolphin dies after everyone wants a selfie with him
19 A Syrian hospital is bombed and Russia denies it has committed a war crime
18 Liverpool get a weekend off
17 A panda enjoys rolling in the snow at Toronto zoo
16 Manchester United - another week, another disaster
15 Ireland goes to the polls this week - and the economy dominates the campaign
14 A Kurdish group claim responsibility for a suicide bombing in Turkey
13 Chelsea give Manchester City a thumping in the FA cup
12 The Pope versus Donald Trump - an unholy row about faith and politics
11 At last - an office chair that can park itself
10 Viola Beach - a week after the Indie band and their manager die in a freak road accident- they're number 11 in the singles chart
9 Harper Lee - the author of To Kill A Mockingbird dies at 89
8 The Walking Dead is back on TV and zombie fans go wild
7 Former Rugby star Matt Dawson backs the campaign to get all children vaccinated against meningitis B
6 Singer Sia keeps her face hidden, but reveals plenty in a karaoke session on American telly
5 #FreeKesha - music stars campaign to get the singer out of her contract
4 Brexit - David Cameron gets his deal in Brussels but Boris Johnson says he'll be campaigning to come out of the EU
3 US elections- and wins for Trump and Clinton
2 The BAFTAS - a good night for Leonardo Di Caprio - a bad night for Stephen Fry as his bag lady joke falls flat
1 Adele hits some bum notes at the Grammys.

2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Sun 21 Feb 2016 19:30

Broadcast

  • Sun 21 Feb 2016 19:30