The Week in Pictures: November 9 – November 16, 2015

The last seven days were full of big news stories so we take a moment to review some of the most important we and other publications covered last week

Friday saw the worst terrorist attack in Europe since the Madrid bombings of 2004. Multiple terrorists attacked various locations across the French capital of Paris. The attacks claimed by Islamic State were at the Stade de France, where a friendly between Germany and France was being attended by the French President Francois Hollande, at the Bataclan concert hall, where Eagles Of Death Metal were playing a gig, and at bars and restaurants across the city. 128 people were killed in the attacks and over 350 injured.

Two suicide bombers detonated themselves in the busy Shia suburbs of Burj al-Barajneh, Beirut last week killing at least 40 people and injuring more than 200 in attacks that were claimed by the mainly Sunni Islamic State. The attacks took place outside a mosque and inside a local bakery, a third suicide bomber failed to detonate his explosives but was killed in the second of the two blasts. In the aftermath Prime Minister Salam of Lebanon called on all factions to come together to oppose “plans to create strife”.

Mohammed Emwazi, dubbed by the press as Jihadi John was killed by a drone strike in Raqqa, Syria, last week, as he entered a car. Coming to prominence in numerous videos showing him beheading western hostages including Britons David Haines and Alan Henning as well as Americans Steven Sotloff, James Foley and Peter Kassig, Emwazi traveled to Syria joining ISIS in 2013. Although confirmation of his death has not been possible sources in the US military are “confident” of his death.

In sport Nico Rosberg won the Brazilian Grand Prix coming home ahead of teammate and World Champion Lewis Hamilton in second with Ferrari of Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen coming home in third and fourth. It might not make a difference now the season’s won, but does it spell doom for Hamilton’s fourth title in a row? You’ll have to read our daily news pages to find out. In the meantime lets look back at some of the big news stories we covered over the last seven days.

1. Amaya announced launching a new sports betting site, BetStars in the next year, hopefully. They plan to operate in available US markets, too. Expectations are very high.

2. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been assigned to jin forces with the American Gaming Association to crack down on illegal gambling in the United States.

3. Such a huge business move was bound to attract attention, the CMA is looking into the merger of online gambling providers Paddy Power and Betfair. Of course it’s just routine, not implying any wrongdoing yet.

4. Simultaneously with the general debate whether it is classified as gambling, the state of New York cut the Gordian knot and banned Daily Fantasy Sports altogether. Players and providers are naturally upset, FanDuel and Draft Kings call for protests.

5. No matter the difficulties, Online gambling giants Amaya are doing fine, thank you!

6. Due to popular demand Full Tilt poker brings back Gold Rush! Deal?

7. EURO 2016 qualification playoffs were all over sports news, with big upsets and great odds lucky people could make a lot of money on.

Meanwhile Professor Paul Gringras has called for mobile phone manufacturers to create a filter that blocks the blue light wave lengths from their devices that he claims are disrupting the ability of people to sleep as it inhibits the production of melatonin, a sleep hormone. A doctor at Evelina Children’s hospital in London Professor Gringras said the tendency for ever bigger and brighter screens from companies meant that their use at night was causing some people to take an extra hour to fall asleep.