Malaysian police say they believe the half-brother of the North Korean leader, Kim Jung Un, has been killed at an airport in Kuala Lumpur. A British sourse close to Kim Jung Nam's family has told the BBC that poison was involved. Media outlets in the region say he was killed using poison needles or some sort of spray.
spray：[spreɪ]
n. 喷雾；喷雾器；水沫
vt. 喷射
vi. 喷
n. (Spray)人名；(英)斯普雷
The White House spokesman has said that President Trump asked his Chief Adviser on National Security to resign, after his trust in him had eroded. The spokesman said x misleading senior officials about his conversations with the Russian Ambassador had not been illegal but an issue of trust.
erode：[ɪ'rəʊd]
vt. 腐蚀，侵蚀
vi. 侵蚀；受腐蚀
The United Nations has warned of a serious escalation in the conflict in the east of Ukraine. An official said that since January, the distance between government and rebel forces had narrowed to hundreds of metres in some places, almost face to face.
The French PSA Group, which manufactures Peugeot and Citroen cars, says it's considering taking over Opel, the European business of the U.S. car giant, General Motors. If the deal goes ahead, PSA will become Europe's second biggest carmaker.
The Chairman of the Japanese electronics conglomerate, Toshiba, has resigned, after the company announced that it suffered a net loss this year of 3.4 billion dollars. x is the most senior Toshiba executive to resign, since it emerged that the company made massive losses with its nuclear business in the United States.
conglomerate：[kən'glɒm(ə)rət]
vi. 凝聚成团
n. [岩] 砾岩；企业集团；聚合物
adj. 成团的；砾岩性的
vt. 使聚结；凝聚成团
A new study has warned that India's air pollution now rivals China's. The report by the U.S.-based Health Effects Institute suggests India's worsening air quality caused over a million premature deaths every year.
premature：['premətjʊə]
adj. 早产的；不成熟的；比预期早的
n. 早产儿；过早发生的事物
A man has been found guilty of murdering a six-year-old boy, who disappeared in New York in 1979, in what became one of U.S.'s most haunting missing child cases. x was convicted in a retrial of kidnapping and killing x.
