Plane crashed in Spain
A plane crashed in Spain. A lot of people saw it. The pilot died.
It was at an air show near Madrid. The historic plane had an accident. It fell down and it hit a building then the plane exploded. There was a lot of black smoke.
We don't know why it happened.
Interesting words: accident (bad moment when you hit something), explode (change fast into small pieces).
People ate rat meat
The Chinese police caught 900 people. These people produced meat. They took meat from rats and foxes and sold it for eating. They told people that it was meat from sheep. People ate rats but they didn't know it. They thought that it was meat from the sheep.
Police tried to catch these people for three months. One man said that they got foxes from a fox farm. He also spoke about how they changed the meat.
They made a lot of money. They made 1.6 million dollars before the police caught them.
Interesting words: caught (past form of "catch"), rat (big mouse).
Helicopter in action
A drug dealer was driving away. Police in a helicopter wanted to kill him. The policemen in this helicopter tried to shoot at him in a big city.
After some time, the drug dealer stopped the car and he ran away. They found him the next day. He was dead.
This moment was on TV. Some people didn’t like it. They say that the policemen used a lot of power. It was very dangerous for people in this city.
Interesting words: dealer (somebody who sells something), shoot (use a gun).
New continent near Brazil
Scientists found a special hard rock in the Atlantic Ocean. This rock is special because it is usually on the ground, not in the ocean. People think that a continent was there in the past.
People found a big piece of this rock 900 metres under the ocean. The rock was ten metres high. They also found sand. This type of sand is not typical for oceans but the scientists only looked. They took nothing for testing.
So other scientists will come and they will do more work.
Interesting words: scientist (clever person who is an expert in something), found (“find” in the past).
Woman was under a house
A building in Bangladesh fell down. Many people died but one woman didn’t die. She was under the building for 17 days. When people found her, they took her to the hospital.
These people were very happy. They smiled and they told others. This was very happy news. It gave people hope. We don't know why she didn’t die. She was very lucky. She will tell us her story when she is OK. People hope that there will be more people who didn’t die but other people were not so lucky. One thousand people died in this accident.
Interesting words: hope (feeling that something good will happen), accident (bad moment when something hits you).
Girls lost in Ohio
Two families from America are very happy. They met their daughters who were lost for many years.
The mother of one daughter said "thank you" to everybody. The daughter was saved by a neighbor.
There was another family. People in this family are still sad. Their daughter is still lost. She was lost in 2007. She was 14 at that time.
The stories of these girls can be connected. Police have a man who kept the girls in his house. Police will speak to this man. He will give more information.
Interesting words: still (always), connected (put together).