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Source: You Tube (BBC News) Key Words: spiderman Mailian Paris Paris balcony boy family thank Mali 'Spiderman' Mamoudou Gassama The family of a small boy dramatically rescued after dangl ing from a balcony in Paris, France have expressed their thanks to the Malian man who saved him. "He's truly a hero," the boy's grandmother said of migrant Mamoudou Gassama, who scaled four floors to pluck the child from danger. The four-year-old's father, who had left him in their flat and gone shopp ing , faces charges of failing to look after his child, reports say. Mr Gassama will be given citizenship . French President Emmanuel Macron personally thanked him, gave him a medal for courage and said he would also be offered a role in the fire service. More details have begun to emerge of the circumstances surrounding the incident. Why was the boy on the balcony? The boy left Réunion, where his mother and grandmother live, about three week...

Source: Helena Lopes en Unsplash Give millennials £10,000 each to tackle generation gap, says think tank Resolution Foundation proposes ‘citizen’s inheritance ’ to help redistribute wealth to young Every person in Britain should receive £10,000 when they turn 25 to help fix the “broken” inter-generational contract between millennials and baby boomers , an influential think tank has proposed following a two-year study. The payment, described as a “citizen’s inheritance”, is intended to redistribute wealth at a time when young people need it most to find housing, return to education or start a business. It is also intended to reduce resentment towards baby boomers (born 1946-65) who have typically done better out of the housing market and pensions than any subsequent generation. The idea has emerged from the Resolution Foundation’s inter-generational commission, which has been working on the issue for two years and has now published its final report. The panel was ch...

Source: Wikimedia (Ed Yourdon)   Phrasal Verbs with run : run around : to be very busy doing a lot of things e.g .I'm exhausted. I've been running around all day. run away : to leave a place suddenly and secretly e.g. Some teenagers run away from home when they are unhappy. run sth by sb : to tell sth to sb e,g, Can you run that by me again ? I'm not sure that I have fully understood. run into sb : to meet sb by chance e.g. I ran into my boss on the High Street at the weekend. run into sth : to experience something unexpectedly e.g. The company ran into problems and had to rethink their strategy. run out (of sth) : to finish, use or sell all of sth so that there is none left e.g. I ran out of time . I still had five or so questions to answer. run over - to hit and drive over sb or sth in a vehicle e.g. She was run over by a car, which then sped off. Running History: My first race was the 14km around Ciudad Universitaria in March 2015. I finished...