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1. Iraqi police arrest eight Sunni Arabs in Kirkuk for allegedly plotting to assassinate the judge who prepared the case against Saddam Housein.
2. An earthquake measured at least magnitude 5.9 shakes a sparsely populated area of Southern Iran, flattening seven villages and killing ten people.
3. Running water is restored to Haerbin, China, five days after a chemical spill forced a shutdown in the city of 3.8 million people.
4. Chechnya, a Southern Russian Republic plagued by violence, corruption and squalor, begins voting in the latest of series of parliamentary elections.
5. And the night sky of Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, is set ablaze with the light from millions of tiny bulbs adorning a huge floating Christmas tree
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. sparse
Something that is sparse is small in number or amount and spread out over an area.
Traffic was sparse on the highway.
ADJ-GRADED
· sparsely
...the sparsely populated interior region, where there are few roads.
ADV-GRADED: usu ADV -ed
2. squalor
squalor
You can refer to very dirty, unpleasant conditions as squalor.
He was out of work and living in squalor.
N-UNCOUNT
3. set ablaze : 烧起, 燃起
4. bulb
1 bulb bulbs
A bulb is the glass part of an electric lamp, which gives out light when electricity passes through it.
The stairwell was lit by a single bulb.
N-COUNT
= light bulb
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