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1. The FBI says search warrants have been executed on the Northern Virginia home and office of a top CIA official. Kyle Foggo and a friend have been linked to a congressional bribery scandal. Authorities want to know if Foggo intervened in contracts awarded to his friend.
2. Villagers scavenging for fuel in Nigeria are blamed for setting off an inferno as gasoline gushing from a ruptured pipeline exploded. As many as two hundred people were killed in the blast.
3. A team of surgeons trying to separate conjoined twin girls has reached the hardest part of the delicate procedure separating their livers. Doctors at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota have already maneuvered 5-month-old Isabelle's tiny heart away from her sister's body and back into her own chest cavity.
4. A team of researchers says a new species of monkey discovered in Tanzania last year is different enough from other monkeys to warrant its own genetic grouping. It's the first time that's happened for an African primate in 83 years
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. search warrant : n-count
A search warrant is a special document that gives the police permission to search a house or other building.
e.g. Officers armed with a search warrant entered the flat.
2. award : verb
To award something to someone means to decide that it will be given to that person.
e.g. We have awarded the contract to a British shipyard.
3. scavenge : verb
If people or animals scavenge for things, they collect them by searching among waste or unwanted objects.
e.g. Many are orphans, their parents killed as they scavenged for food.
4. inferno : n-count
If you refer to a fire as an inferno, you mean that it is burning fiercely and causing great destruction. (JOURNALISM)
e.g. Rescue workers fought to get to victims inside the inferno.
5. gush : verb
When liquid gushes out of something, or when something gushes a liquid, the liquid flows out very quickly and in large quantities.
e.g. A supertanker continues to gush oil off the coast of Spain.
6. rupture : verb
If an object ruptures or if something ruptures it, it bursts open.
e.g. Certain truck gasoline tanks can rupture and burn in a collision...
= burst
7. conjoin : verb
If two or more things conjoin or if you conjoin them, they are united and joined together. (FORMAL)
e.g. America's rise in rates was conjoined with higher rates elsewhere.
8. liver : n-count
Your liver is a large organ in your body which processes your blood and helps to clean unwanted substances out of it.
9. delicate : adj
A delicate task, movement, action, or product needs or shows great skill and attention to detail.
e.g. a long and delicate operation carried out at a hospital in Florence.
10. maneuver : verb
If you maneuver something into or out of an awkward position, you skillfully move it there.
e.g. We attempted to maneuver the canoe closer to him.
11. cavity : n-count
A cavity is a space or hole in something such as a solid object or a person's body. (FORMAL)
chest cavity : noun
The cavity in the vertebrate body enclosed by the ribs between the diaphragm and the neck and containing the lungs and heart
12. warrant : verb
If something warrants a particular action, it makes the action seem necessary or appropriate for the circumstances.
e.g. The allegations are serious enough to warrant an investigation.
= merit
13. grouping : n-count
A grouping is a set of people or things that have something in common.
e.g. There were two main political groupings pressing for independence.
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