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1. World leaders have descended² on Washington where talks continue today on potential ways to combat the global financial crisis. The economic summit is the largest gathering³ of its kind in the nation’s capital in nearly a decade.

2. The economy is a topic for President-elect Barack Obama in the Weekly Democratic Radio Address. This week’s remarks were videotaped and posted on YouTube.

3. A pair of wildfires are torching southern California. Strong wind gusts⁴ spanning the plains aren’t making things easier for the firefighters. More than 100 homes have been destroyed by the blazes.

4. This may take a while to clean up. A new world record for the number of dominoes toppled in one go has been set in the Netherlands. More than 4.3-million dominoes were knocked over during a two-hour TV show last night. The start took eight weeks to set up and more than a year to plan.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. descend¹ on: phr v.

if a large number of people descend on a person or a place, they come to visit or stay.

2. span: v.

to include all of a particular space or area.

3. go: n.

an attempt to do something.