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1. In the Pacific, Russian crews struggle to raise a mini- sub snarled deep in the ocean with 7 crew men trapped on board the vessel.
2. The most anxiety-ridden part of its flight yet to come, shuttle Discovery leaves the International Space Station and heads for home.
3. A Tunisian airliner that reportedly lost engine power plunges into the Mediterranean off Sicily, killing at least 13 with 3 missing.
4. Iranian leaders reject a European proposal meant to calm western fears about its nuclear program, which Teheran insists is peaceful.
5. And Hiroshima remembers the world's first atomic bomb attack, which devastated that Japanese city exactly six decades earlier.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. (longman)snarl :[transitive usually passive] also snarl up (British English) to prevent traffic from moving
eg.Traffic snarled up on both sides of the road.
2. anxiety-ridden[简明英汉词典] adj. 忧心忡忡的
3. plunge
plunge plunges plunging plunged
If something or someone plunges in a particular direction, especially into water, they fall, rush, or throw themselves in that direction.
At least 50 people died when a bus plunged into a river.
He ran down the steps to the pool terrace and plunged in.
VB
+ plunge plunges
Also a noun.
...a plunge into cold water.
N-COUNT: usu sing
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