A selection of headlines from stories in the news. They use English in a way that you might think is intended to confuse but it’s all perfectly clear to the native speaker.

You can’t beat a hit movie to provide the inspiration for a newspaper headline. The Daily Mirror report about a deadly breed of hornets threatening British bees produced the headline ‘Bee Afraid’, a neat play on ‘Be Afraid’, a phrase from the classic 1986 horror film The Fly.