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1. A deadly day in Iraq. A suicide car bomber strikes in Basra. More than two dozen are dead. Four Russian diplomats were kidnapped, another killed in Baghdad. And police found 12 bodies, eight had been decapitated.
2. Canadian police say they arrested 17 terror suspects and foiled plans for an attack. Police say the suspects were inspired by al-Qaeda, and possessed three times the amount of explosive materials used in the Oklahoma City bombing.
3. Police are searching for the prime suspect in the gruesome murders of seven family members. Indianapolis investigators thought they had nabbed Desmond Turner in an early morning raid, but he escaped. Another suspect is in custody.
4. Emergency workers were buzzing angry on a Turkey highway today. A truck carrying hundreds of beehives overturned. The drivers were wounded, but to add insult to injuries, the bees attacked them. As firefighters rushed to the scene, the flying stingers turned on them, sending the rescue crews running.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. decapitate : verb
If someone is decapitated, their head is cut off. (FORMAL)
e.g. A worker was decapitated when a lift plummeted down the shaft on top of him.
2. foil : verb
If you foil someone's plan or attempt to do something, for example to commit a crime, you succeed in stopping them from doing what they want. (JOURNALISM)
e.g. A brave police chief foiled an armed robbery on a jewelers' by grabbing the raiders' shotgun.
= thwart
3. gruesome : adj
Something that is gruesome is extremely unpleasant and shocking.
e.g. There has been a series of gruesome murders in the capital.
= grisly
4. nab : verb
If people in authority such as the police nab someone who they think has done something wrong, they catch them or arrest them. (INFORMAL)
e.g. He killed 12 people before the authorities finally nabbed him.
= collar
5. beehive : n-count
A beehive is a structure in which bees are kept, which is designed so that the beekeeper can collect the honey that they produce.
6. to add insult to injury : phrase
You say to add insult to injury when mentioning an action or fact that makes an unfair or unacceptable situation even worse.
7. stinger : noun
the sharp pointed part of an insect or creature that can go into the skin leaving a small, painful and sometimes poisonous wound
8. turn on : phrasal verb
If someone turns on you, they attack you or speak angrily to you.
e.g. Demonstrators turned on police, overturning vehicles and setting fire to them |