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1.New York Times reporter Judith Miller testifies before a grand jury, ending her silence in the investigation into whether White House officials leaked the name of a covert CIA operative.
2.Sunni insurgents hit two Shiite towns in two days with brutal bombings that kill more than 110 people, apparently aiming to scare Shiites from the polls ahead of a crucial vote on the new constitution.
3.Funerals were held for two Palestinians killed when Israeli soldiers raided the Ballata refugee camp outside the West Bank city of Nablus. Five Palestinian gunmen have been slain by Israel in the West Bank in the last two days.
4.A school bus overturned on a New York expressway Friday, injuring dozens of children. Scores of emergency workers responded to the crash scene on the Major Deegan Expressway, where the bus, with 46 children and 8 adults, flipped on to its side.
5.For the first time, biologists have documented the gorillas in the wild, using simple tools to perform rudimentary tasks such as poking a stick in a swampy pool of water to check its depth. Until now scientists have seen gorillas use tools only in captivity.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. covert: a. Not openly practiced, avowed, engaged in, accumulated, or shown: covert military operations; covert funding for the rebels.
2. flip : vi. To turn over
3. rudimentary: a. Of or relating to basic facts or principles; elementary
4. poke: vt. To push; thrust
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