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1. The U.S. military says that intelligence gathered after the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has triggered dozens of raids and arrests. One official says more than a dozen simultaneous searches were carried out around the safe house where al-Zarqawi was killed.
2. The military wing of Hamas has called off a 16-month truce with Israel after a series of strikes by the Israeli military. In one strike along a Gaza beach, 7 Palestinians, including children were killed when Israel fired shells at a spot on the beach, suspected of being a Hamas rocket-launching site.
3. A 16-year-old Michigan girl is back home from the Middle East after U. S. officials in Jordan convinced her to return to the U. S. Katherine Lester's family says the teen apparently ran off to meet an older man she'd been corresponding with on MySpace.com.
4. Meet the hardest working caddy (or caddie) in southern Missouri. Peanut, a Parson Russell Terrier, keeps track of golf balls and sticks, but mostly she just keeps the golfers entertained.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. safe house : n-count
You can refer to a building as a safe house when it is used as a place where someone can stay and be protected. Safe houses are often used by spies, criminals, or the police.
e.g. a farm which operates as a safe house for criminals on the run.
2. wing : n-count
A wing of an organization, especially a political organization, is a group within it which has a particular function or particular beliefs.
e.g. the military wing of the African National Congress.
3. call off : phrasal verb
If you call off an event that has been planned, you cancel it.
e.g. He has called off the trip.
4. convince : verb
If someone or something convinces you to do something, they persuade you to do it. (mainly AM)
e.g. That weekend in Plattsburgh, he convinced her to go ahead and marry Bud.
= persuade
5. MySpace.com
MySpace is a social networking website offering an interactive network of photos, blogs, user profiles, groups, and an internal e-mail system. As of March 2006 it is the world's fifth most popular English-language website and the eighth most popular in the world (according to Alexa Internet). MySpace has outstripped competitors such as Friendster and LiveJournal to become the most popular English-language social networking website with higher traffic and over 68 million registered accounts. It has become an increasing part of contemporary teenage culture in the Western world. But there are also cases of adults using MySpace to find, meet, and stalk young teenagers. Such cases are typically the result of the victim displaying personal information on their profile unaware of the potential audience. Law enforcement is working to spread knowledge about this subject to users of social networking sites to help prevent cases in the future.
6. caddy : n-count
also caddie. In golf, a caddie is a person who carries golf clubs and other equipment for a player.
7. terrier : n-count
A terrier is a small breed of dog. There are many different types of terrier.
Parson Russell Terrier
The Parson Russell Terrier was the first Kennel Club recognized variant of the Jack Russell Terrier, first drawn into the UK Kennel Club in 1990, and into the American Kennel Club in 2001. The Parson Russell Terrier is a balanced, square dog, very similar in form to other Russell Terriers, but is largely a show breed rather than a working dog.
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