Water skiing on big water
Many places in Germany are flooded. People are not happy. For them, It is a hard time. But one boy knew how to have fun.
He is sixteen years old and he is very good at wakeboarding. A car, which was on the road, pulled him. And he was going behind the car on a wakeboard. He did it on the flood waters.
Interesting words: flooded (full of water), wakeboarding (activity when you go on water on a board), behind (after).
Factory under the ground
Police found a small town under the ground. In it, there were 200 people. They were not from Russia. These people lived and worked in the underground town.
The town was under the Moscow market. There was a factory, simple rooms with beds, a cafe and a cinema. They had chickens there too!
In 2011 police found a similar place. It was a town under the ground also. People from other countries live in these places.
Interesting words: found (past form of find), similar (almost the same).
Old bomb in Japan
People found an old bomb. It was a bomb from World War Two. It was not used. It was in a Japanese city. It was near a train station.
The bomb was 40 centimeters long. Experts put bags with sand around the bomb. They detonated it. No people were at the train station. The people who detonated it told the people to go away. It was not safe. People in the whole city heard the explosion.
Interesting words: detonate (make a bomb change fast into small pieces), whole (all).
Big car in water
It rained a lot in China. A big car was on a bridge when a river started to grow very large. The car stopped on the bridge. It could not move. This was, because the water was around the car. It was very dangerous.
People called the firemen. They came. They saw the car and the man who was in the car. The firemen gave a rope to the man and they saved him.
The driver was OK. He was only shocked.
Interesting words: dangerous (not safe), rope (long line from textile).
Big car hit a restaurant
A woman drove in a big car. She was not drunk but she didn't feel OK. She drove into a fast-food restaurant.
People in the restaurant ran away. They had fear. Two people went to a hospital but nobody died.
The bosses of that fast-food restaurant were not happy. They repaired the restaurant before the accident. But now it is destroyed.
Interesting words: drunk (with alcohol inside you), destroyed (broken).
Motorbike went very fast
A man on a motorcycle went very fast. He was on a highway in California. Police cars were too slow for him.
Two policemen on motorcycles were behind him. Their motorcycles were fast. The man drove from the highway onto a bad road. There was a bridge in front of him. This bridge was not finished. He could not go on it. So he stopped and the policemen got him.
We don't know yet why he did this.
Interesting words: motorcycle (bicycle with a motor), highway (big wide road).