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1. New York's Mayor Bloomberg defends going public with the threat that terrorists might want to strike the city's subway system.
2. Bomb blasts kill six marines in Western Iraq while US forces kill dozens of militants in offensives to uproot Al-Qaida insurgents.
3. This year's Nobel Peace Prize goes to Chief UN Nuclear Inspector Mohamed El Baradei and the agency he runs, the IAEA.
4. Iran rejects claims by Britain's Prime Minister Blair that it's supplying Iraqi insurgents with bombs that have killed British troops.
5. And in London, thousands of tattoo enthusiasts gather for a weekend convention drawing both veterans and newcomers to body arts.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. uproot
1 uproot uproots uprooting uprooted
If you uproot yourself or if you are uprooted, you leave, or are made to leave, a place where you have lived for a long time.
...the trauma of uprooting themselves from their homes...
He had no wish to uproot Dena from her present home.
...refugees who were uprooted during Ethiopia's civil war.
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2. tattoo
1 tattoo tattoos
A tattoo is a design that is drawn on someone's skin using needles to make little holes and filling them with coloured dye.
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3. newcomer
1 newcomer newcomers
A newcomer is a person who has recently arrived in a place, joined an organization, or started a new activity.
He must be a newcomer to town and he obviously didn't understand our local customs.
The candidates are both relative newcomers to politics.
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