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15/05/2016

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, politics, sport and showbiz stories of the week that are making the biggest impact across social media and online. Emma is joined by Kevin Schofield from Politics Home and Bea Appleby from The Female Lead website.

This week's Hit List:

40 Singlish - the fusion language from Singapore makes the Oxford English Dictionary

39 Disability and job hunting: 200 applications, 100 interviews and still no luck for one woman

38 David Attenborough - the 大象传媒 salutes him at 90

37 X Men: Apocalypse - the film is out next week

36 Queen of Katwe - Uganda's chess star on film

35 Girls Just Want to Have Funds - Cyndi Lauper updates her hit to highlight the gender pay gap

34 Chelsea - the old champions hand over to the new champions with a draw at the Bridge.

33 Sinkhole- a giant hole swallows a car

32 Orange is the New Black - a new series of the Netflix drama set in a women's prison

31 The Vodafone Ghanaian Music Awards - in the chart two weeks running

30 A speedy squirrel with no hind legs becomes a YouTube sensation

29 Greek protests against austerity turn violent

28 Inferno - the trailer for Tom Hanks latest film

27 Mayweather versus McGregor and rumours the boxer will fight the UFC man

26 Assassin's Creed - the film of the video game is out later this year

25 Leicester City get ready to parade their Premier League trophy around the city

24 The Purrfect president - a cat rules at Southampton University

23 A Trafford centre terrorist exercise ends with the police apologising to Muslims

22 Formula One and Max Verstappen becomes the youngest ever Grand Prix winner

21 Election Expenses - the investigation into Conservative spending goes on

20 Liverpool prepare for the Europa League final

19 George Zimmerman who shot dead an unarmed black teenager tries to sell the gun online

18 West Ham - lose against Stoke and have to wait to see if they'll be in the Europa League

17 Manchester United- no game today after Old Trafford is evacuated after a security alert

16 The Queen wins a fifty quid Tesco voucher

15 Mercury transit - amazing photos of the smallest planet travelling across the sun gets everyone excited

14 The Invictus Games - Prince Harry's dream comes true

13 Uncharted 4 - the new video shooter game is getting well reviewed

12 The Stone Roses are back with new material after 21 years

11 Barefoot in Cannes, Julia Roberts kicks off her shoes at the Film Festival

10 Syria and CCTV footage of a hospital hit in an airstrike

9 Azealia Banks is kicked off Twitter for racist abuse

8 The EU referendum - it's the pre-debate debate. Who'll take on Mr Cameron?

7 The Baftas - winners, losers and controversy over a joke

6 Corruption - David Cameron is fantastically indiscreet

5 Amir Khan loses - but he's hailed a hero for trying

4 It's Sky's Game of Thrones and an epic sword battle

3 The 大象传媒 White Paper - radical overhaul or cop out?

2 George Clooney ridicules Donald Trump's bid for the White House

1 Eurovision puts ethnic cleansing in the spotlight.

2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Sun 15 May 2016 19:30

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  • Sun 15 May 2016 19:30