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Hi there, I'm Leah from the BBC World News for Schools. It's Tuesday the 5th of July. 

Coming up: 

Tennis ace¹ Djokovic gets a hero's welcome. 

CLIP: Crowds cheering 

The countdown is on for space shuttle Atlantis 

And Indian treasure hunters hit a brick wall. 

But first... 

CLIP: Crowds cheering 

That was the sound that greeted Wimbledon tennis champ Novak Djokovic on his return home to Serbia. Djokovic and his team were given an open-top bus tour through the streets of Belgrade, cheered on by thousands of fans. Djokovic beat Spain's Rafael Nadal in Sunday's final, becoming tennis' new number 1! 

And the answer to yesterday's question is buried in that last story. We asked you where Novak Djokovic is from. And the answer is....Serbia! 

To Japan now where the Minister in charge of rebuilding the country after the earthquake has quit, and after just one week in the job! Ryu Matsumoto faced a lot of criticism for making insensitive remarks to governors of areas badly affected² by the deadly earthquake and tsunami³ in March. 

Next up... 

CLIP: "Ten, nine, eight, seven..." 

The final countdown is on for the last ever space shuttle mission in America. The four astronauts, who'll be blasting off in Atlantis on Friday, have arrived in Florida for last minute preparations. Atlantis will be hauling more than 3.5 tonnes of supplies to the International Space Station. This load includes a year's worth of food. US space agency Nasa is retiring all its shuttles because they are too expensive. 

Now to Queensland, in north-eastern Australia, where officials are investigating why dozens of turtles have been found washed up on beaches, many of them ill or dead. It's thought unusually cold weather could be to blame. Conservationists say they have never seen anything like it and they are worried that there may be many more unreported cases. 

Footy news now and Manchester City fans won't be happy to hear that captain Carlos Tevez say he definitely wants to leave the club. The 27-year-old striker says it's too hard being so far away from his daughters, who live in Argentina with their mum. Tevez first said he wanted to leave Eastlands in December, but later withdrew the transfer request. 

And for today's question we want to know what language is spoken in Argentina? 

And finally, treasure hunters in India have come up against a brick wall - well actually it's an iron one. The team who are searching for precious jewels in a Keralan temple have so far managed to crack through five vaults⁵ - unearthing⁶ all sorts of precious stones, gold and silver. After prising open the outer doors to the sixth they had thought they were onto something, but instead they were faced with an iron wall. According to the temple records the sixth vault⁴ has not been opened in 136 years. 

OK, that's all from the World News for Schools team. We're back tomorrow.

1 ace   

n.A牌；发球得分；佼佼者；adj.杰出的

参考例句：

• A good negotiator always has more than one ace in the hole.谈判高手总有数张王牌在手。
• He is an ace mechanic.He can repair any cars.他是一流的机械师,什么车都会修。

2 affected   

adj.不自然的，假装的

参考例句：

• She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
• His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。

3 tsunami   

n.海啸

参考例句：

• Powerful quake sparks tsunami warning in Japan.大地震触发了日本的海啸预警。
• Coastlines all around the Indian Ocean inundated by a huge tsunami.大海啸把印度洋沿岸地区都淹没了。

4 vault   

n.拱形圆顶，地窖，地下室

参考例句：

• The vault of this cathedral is very high.这座天主教堂的拱顶非常高。
• The old patrician was buried in the family vault.这位老贵族埋在家族的墓地里。

5 vaults   

n.拱顶( vault的名词复数 )；地下室；撑物跳高；墓穴

参考例句：

• It was deposited in the vaults of a bank. 它存在一家银行的保险库里。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• They think of viruses that infect an organization from the outside.They envision hackers breaking into their information vaults. 他们考虑来自外部的感染公司的病毒，他们设想黑客侵入到信息宝库中。 来自《简明英汉词典》

6 unearthing   

发掘或挖出某物( unearth的现在分词 )； 搜寻到某事物，发现并披露

参考例句：

• And unearthing the past often means literally and studying the evidence. 通常，探寻往事在字面上即意味着——刨根究底。
• The unearthing of "Peking Man" was a remarkable discovery. “北京人”的出土是个非凡的发现。