AP美联社一分钟新闻 2008-11-16（在线收听）

1. World leaders have descended on Washington where talks continue today on potential ways to combat the global financial crisis. The economic summit is the largest gathering of its kind in the nation’s capital in nearly a decade.

2. The economy is a topic for President-elect Barack Obama in the Weekly Democratic Radio Address. This week’s remarks were videotaped and posted on YouTube.

3. A pair of wildfires are torching southern California. Strong wind gusts spanning the plains aren’t making things easier for the firefighters. More than 100 homes have been destroyed by the blazes.

4. This may take a while to clean up. A new world record for the number of dominoes toppled in one go has been set in the Netherlands. More than 4.3-million dominoes were knocked over during a two-hour TV show last night. The start took eight weeks to set up and more than a year to plan.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. descend on: phr v.

if a large number of people descend on a person or a place, they come to visit or stay.

2. span: v.

to include all of a particular space or area.

3. go: n.

an attempt to do something.