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Man United close to historic win Report Manchester United have one hand on the Premier League crown after crushing Chelsea's late bid to snatch the trophy from their grasp. Chelsea had clawed themselves back into this title race, with a 10-game unbea
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Man United close to historic win have one hand on are very close to getting or winning crushing completely defeating or destroying to snatch to take (something) suddenly or quite aggressively from their grasp from their possession clawed (themselves)
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Vocabulary powers here, runs, or allows the computer to operate effectively revolutionised introduced very big changes or new ideas to swallowed up here, bought and taken over by a larger company over the internet using a computer connected to the in
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Samoa to change its time zone Report When Samoa put itself on the east side of the international dateline back in 1892, it was apparently to do same-day business with Californian traders across the Pacific. Now the main trading partners are nearby Ne
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Samoa to change its time zone Vocabulary the international dateline the imaginary line which runs from north to south across the Pacific Ocean, marking the final place where one day ends and the first where a new one begins same-day business trading
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Argentina builds a tower of books Report This is simply an audio and visual celebration of the book - any books, all books, in whichever language you like. Works by Jane Austen, Dickens, Henry Blake, Ernest Hemingway, Cervantes, Vargas Llosa, Tolstoy
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Argentina builds a tower of books Vocabulary line are displayed in rows across has designated has described or named book tower here, tall structure which is partly built from books embassies buildings where groups of people who represent their count
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Germany to invest in more electric cars Report Germany plans to double financial aid, particularly to develop better, lighter batteries, which remain the brake on the technology's mass appeal. Cars which emit virtually no carbon dioxide will be exemp
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Germany to invest in more electric cars Vocabulary financial aid help by giving money the brake on the drawback or negative aspect of mass appeal widespread popularity emit lets out or sends out exempt not required to do something green reputation kn
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Lonely planets Report The researchers claim to have found ten dark gas giants floating at the heart of our Milky Way without any nearby star to illuminate them. Astronomers have long suspected such rogue planets existed, but this is the first evidenc
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Lonely planets Vocabulary gas giants large planets which don't have a solid surface rogue unconventional, not normal came into being were formed, created cast-outs objects that have been thrown away ejected from thrown out of gravitational forces the
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Obama visits 'home' in Ireland Report If the residents of Moneygall need any advice on how best to welcome an American president, they might turn to their counterparts in another small Irish village, Ballyporeen, which, in 1984 played host to the gre
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Obama visits 'home' in Ireland Vocabulary counterparts people who have had the experience that they are about to have played host to welcomed following in the footsteps (of) doing what others have done before a wave of a large number of his ancestral
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Micro-finance 'misused and abused' Muhammed Yunus is no stranger to controversy. He sent a letter of resignation earlier this month from his job as the head of Grameen Bank, after effectively being forced out. He told me it was very painful to leave
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Micro-finance 'misused and abused' Vocabulary no stranger to controversy has often found himself in situations where there has been disagreement and conflict a letter of resignation a formal written notification in which you say that you are leaving
