美联社新闻一分钟 2006-01-31

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1. Osama bin¹ Laden’s top deputy is calling President Bush a butcher in a new videotape airing on Al-Jazeera. It’s the first video from Ayman al-Zawahri since a US air strike in Pakistan missed him earlier this month.

2. ABC journalists Bob Woodruff and Doug Vogt are very seriously injured but stable, according to the commander of a US military hospital. The two arrived at a facility in Germany on Monday after being wounded Sunday in a roadside bombing in Iraq.

3. Kidnapped US journalist Jill Carroll has appeared in a new video on Al-Jazeera. In it, she's weeping and appealing for the release of women Iraqi prisoners.

4. A baby girl found floating inside a plastic bag has miraculously² survived abandonment in Brazil. This amateur video shows the infant being rescued Saturday by two men who use a long tree branch to pull the bag out of a park lake. Doctors have released the two-month-old, and say she is in good condition

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. butcher : noun [C]
someone who murders a lot of people, especially in a cruel way

2. weep : verb [I or T] wept, wept LITERARY
to cry, especially because you feel very sad
e.g. People in the street wept with joy when peace was announced.

3. miraculously : adverb
effectively or surprisingly or difficult to believe:
e.g. Miraculously, the guards escaped death.

4. abandonment : noun [U]
The abandonment of a place, thing, or person is the act of leaving it permanently³ or for a long time, especially when you should not do so.
e.g.The abandonment of the island followed nuclear tests in the area