2. In Iraq five more American service members are killed in a latest violence there while gunmen in Baghdad kidnap a senior Iraqi official.

3. President Bush signs a huge highway bill totally nearly 300 billion dollars including cash for thousands of lawmaker pet projects.

4. Ahead of next week's Gaza pullout, Israeli troops hold a final drill to prepare for some of the withdrawal's worst possible scenarios.

5. And a daring rescue saves a trapped climber who tried to scale Pakistan's so-called killer mountain in the western Himalayas.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. brinkmanship
brinkmanship
Brinkmanship is a method of behaviour, especially in politics, in which you deliberately get into dangerous situations which could result in disaster but which could also bring success. (JOURNALISM)
A game of political brinkmanship has begun at Westminster with the political careers of some cabinet ministers on the line.
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2. scenario
1 scenario scenarios
If you talk about a likely or possible scenario, you are talking about the way in which a situation may develop.
...the nightmare scenario of a divided and irrelevant Royal Family...
In the worst-case scenario, you could become a homeless person.
Try to imagine all the possible scenarios and what action you would take.
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3. scale
9 scale scales scaling scaled
If you scale something such as a mountain or a wall, you climb up it or over it. (WRITTEN)
...Rebecca Stephens, the first British woman to scale Everest...
The men scaled a wall and climbed down scaffolding on the other side.
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= climb