Six miners are trapped 1500 feet underground in Huntington, Utah, about 140 miles south of Salt Lake City. The cave-in at the Genwal mine was so strong that authorities first thought it was an earthquake.
Crews in Minneapolis are using a high-resolution camera to search underwater after last week's deadly bridge collapse. Meanwhile divers continue the delicate task of looking for eight missing people. At least five others died in the collapse.
President Bush and Afghan President Hamid Karzai are wrapping up a two-day meeting at Camp David. Bush says Afghanistan has made progress since the Taliban fell in 2001, but acknowledges there is still work to be done.
Police in France are looking for a group of armed masked men who stole four famous paintings from a museum in broad daylight. The artwork is worth more than one million dollars. One of the pieces was painted by Claude Monet in 1897.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. cave-in: noun
when the roof of something such as a mine falls in
2. Genwal mine:
a mine operated by Genwal Resources Inc.
3. high-resolution: adj
高分辨率，高清晰的
4. delicate: adj
needing to be dealt with carefully or sensitively in order to avoid problems or failure
5. wrap up:
to finish a job, meeting etc
6. fall: verb
if a leader or a government falls, they lose their position of power
7. in broad daylight:
if something, especially a crime, happens in broad daylight, it happens in the daytime and in public
8. artwork: noun [U and C]
paintings and other objects produced by artists
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