美联社新闻一分钟 2005-08-10

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1. Discovery and 7 person crew touch down in California, safely ending the first shuttle mission since the Columbia tragedy.

2. Iran's resumption of converting uranium prompts the UN's nuclear Watchdog to hold an emergency meeting on Teheran's activities.

3. In Baghdad, a suicide bomber¹ strikes a US convoy² in a wave of violence killing³ at least 17 in Iraq including a US soldier.

4. Thieves in Brazil tunnel into a bank vault⁴ stealing nearly 68 million dollars in the South American country’s largest ever robbery .

5. And Nagasaki marks 6 decades since the world's second and last atomic bomb attack devastated⁵ that Japanese city.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. tunnel
tunnel tunnels tunnelling tunnelled
To tunnel somewhere means to make a tunnel there.
The rebels tunnelled out of a maximum security jail.
The caterpillars⁶ tunnel into the fruit to grow and mature.
VB (AM) tunneling, tunneled

2. vault
vault vaults⁷
A vault is a secure room where money and other valuable things can be kept safely.
Most of the money was in storage in bank vaults.
The gold recovered so far is being held in a vault at a secret location.
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3. robbery
robbery robberies
Robbery is the crime of stealing money or property from a bank, shop, or vehicle, often by using force or threats.
The gang members committed dozens of armed robberies over the past year.
The man was serving a sentence for robbery with violence.
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