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1.More than 350 people are reportedly dead in Myanmar after a powerful cyclone¹ hit the country's southwest coast. Five regions have been declared disaster zones. Thousands of homes have also been destroyed.

2.The horse racing² world is reeling after yesterday's second-place filly in the Kentucky Derby was put down just after the race. Officials say "Eight Belles³" suffered fractures in both front ankles and was euthanized. 

3.Authorities have charged one suspect and are searching for a second in the fatal shooting of a Philadelphia police officer after a bank robbery. The officer was fatally shot with an assault rifle yesterday morning while responding to the robbery in northeast Philadelphia.

4.Democrats⁴ are getting in some last-minute campaigning before their next major match-up on Tuesday when voters in Indiana and North Carolina hit the polls. Barack Obama criticized Hillary Clinton for saying the US would obliterate⁵ Iran if it were to attack Israel. Obama says that's not the language we need right now.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. obliterate: v.

If something obliterates⁶ an object or place, it destroys it completely.