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1. A lawyer for one of the terror suspects in Canada says his client is accused of wanting to behead the prime minister. 15 of the suspects accused of plotting a massive terror attack in southern Ontario were in court today along with a swarm of media.
2. The body of a young woman killed in a collision and mistakenly buried in someone else's grave was exhumed today in Gaylord, Michigan. Authorities incorrectly identified a female survivor who was in a coma as Laura VanRyn, and told the parents of Whitney Cerak that she had died.
3. In Artesia, New Mexico, not far from the US-Mexico border, President Bush is pushing immigration reform legislation. Speaking to border patrol agents, Bush said Congress is making progress toward a bill that would allow foreigners to get temporary work permits.
4. And in honor of today's date--- June 6, 2006, there is a hot party going on in Hell--- Hell, Michigan that is. The abbreviation 666 signifies the devil according to some interpretations of the Bible.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. behead : verb
If someone is beheaded, their head is cut off, usually because they have been found guilty of a crime.
e.g. Charles I was beheaded by the Cromwellians.
= decapitate
2. grave : n-count
A grave is a place where a dead person is buried.
e.g. They used to visit her grave twice a year.
3. exhume : verb
If a dead person's body is exhumed, it is taken out of the ground where it is buried, especially so that it can be examined in order to find out how the person died. (FORMAL)
e.g. His remains have been exhumed from a cemetery in Queens, New York City.
4. 666
The Number of the Beast is mentioned in the Book of Revelation of the Christian New Testament and has long been accepted to be 666. In some interpretations of Christian eschatology the "Beast" is believed to refer to an entity controlled by an Antichrist. The number 666 also has many mathematical properties. The number 666 retains a peculiar significance in the culture and psychology of Western societies. Just as many people try to avoid the "unlucky" number 13 (a fear of which is called "triskaidekaphobia"), so people find ways to avoid the "Devil's number", even in contexts that would seem on first sight to be far removed from superstition. The fear of the number 666 is known as "Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia".
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