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1. Hungry families huddle under tents waiting for relief supplies as shopkeepers clash with looters after Pakistan's worst earthquake levels entire villages.
2. Insurgents launch a new salvo of deadly attacks in Iraq five days ahead of a constitutional referendum with suicide car bombs, roadside explosions and drive-by shootings.
3. Three New Orleans police officers plead not guilty to battery charges based on a videotape showing patrolmen punching a 64-year-old man and shoving an AP producer.
4. Conservative leader Angela Merkel says she's reached a good and fair deal that will make her Germany's first female chancellor in a power-sharing agreement.
5. And Boy George returns to London as his lawyer denies the drugs found in the British singer's New York apartment belong to him.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. level
11 level levels levelling levelled
If someone or something such as a violent storm levels a building or area of land, they destroy it completely or make it completely flat.
Further tremors could level more buildings.
The storm was the most powerful to hit Hawaii this century. It leveled sugar plantations and destroyed homes.
VB (AM) leveling, leveled
2. salvo
1 salvo salvoes
A salvo is the firing of several guns or missiles at the same time in a battle or ceremony.
They were to fire a salvo of blanks, after the national anthem.
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3. patrolman
1 patrolman patrolmen
A patrolman is a policeman who patrols a particular area. (AM)
In Petersburg, 30 patrolmen have died violently in the past five years.
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4. power-sharing
power-sharing
Power-sharing is a political arrangement in which different or opposing groups all take part in government together.
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