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1. Israel was defending its morning raid deep into Lebanon. The prime minister told the UN secretary general it was stopping arms shipments to Hezbollah. Lebanon says it violated the ceasefire and is threatening to stop deploying its army to the south.
2. German authorities have arrested one suspect who allegedly tried to blow up two trains. The man is a Lebanese student suspected of planting two suitcase bombs on the trains last month. A video helped police nab the suspect. Authorities are still looking for another suspect.
3. The man who says he was with JonBenet Ramsey when she died is expected back in the US on Sunday. John Mark Karr is currently being held in Thailand. JonBenet was found the day after Christmas at her house in Colorado in 1996.
4. The Cincinnati Zoo is having a birthday party. Last weekend, Muke delivered a healthy baby boy. It's the first gorilla birth there since 1998. About seventy-five thousand lowland gorillas remain in the wild, but zoo officials say they are disappearing at a rate of a thousand a year.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. shipment : n-count
The act or an instance of shipping goods.
2. plant : verb
To set firmly in position; fix. For example: planted both feet on the ground.
3. nab : verb
To take into custody as a prisoner; to get hold of something moving.
4. gorilla : n-count
The largest of the anthropoid apes native to the forests of equatorial Africa, having a stocky body and coarse, dark brown or black hair.
5. lowland : n-count
An area of land that is low in relation to the surrounding country.
6. wild : n-count
A natural or undomesticated state. For example: returned the zoo animals to the wild; plants that grow abundantly in the wild.
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