- diffuse: Neither her words nor efforts by state and local officials have done much to stop the un rest, in part because of the diffuse nature of the protesters and the wide array of demands.
- repel: Even before kickoff at mid-afternoon, some protesters among thousands marching before the game crossed police lines and had to be repelled by force, according to local authorities.
- impede: They say the demonstrations impede the right to come and go of the population," the group said in a statement.
- rubber: A Reuters photographer covering the protest said police pointed guns armed with rubber bullets at journalists to get them to step back.
- contingency: Rousseff's action, part of the contingency plan for the tournament, is similar to previous deployments of federal troops when crime, violence or other unrest disrupted annual Carnival celebrations and other big events.
- condolence: An African Union official, Mahamet Saleh Annadif, condemned the " cowardly" attack and sent condolences to the families of the victims.
- blatant: This was an act of blatant terrorism and a desperate attempt to knock Somalia off its path of recovery and peace-building," he said.
- trickle: After the ouster of al-Shabab, the international community had started trickling back into the capital, and the U.N. began moving in its personnel from Kenya, a process that accelerated in recent weeks.
- martyrdom: The attack began about 11:30 a.m. when the seven al-Shabab militants from what the group called its martyrdom brigade blew up an explosives-laden truck at the gates of the U.N. compound and gunmen rushed in, said a U.N. official who insisted on anonymity because he was not an official spokesman.
- conjugal: Cuba reportedly has agreed to allow a U.S. doctor to visit him in detention, and has also granted him conjugal visits and made him available to high-level American delegations.
- adherence: The migration talks are intended to monitor adherence to a 16-year-old agreement under which the United States issues 20,000 emigration visas to Cubans a year.
- resumption: Geoff Thale, a Cuba analyst at the Washington Office on Latin America think tank, said the resumption of talks, and the moves involving Gross and Gonzalez, are a sign that long-frozen relations could finally be improving.
- ailment: His family has complained that he has lost a lot of weight in jail and suffers from various ailments.
- resumption: A nascent effort at rapprochement between Washington and Havana has stalled since Gross's arrest, and the resumption of the two sets of bilateral talks is sure to raise speculation that there could be movement on his case.
- ire: In fact, Brazil's problem is the opposite: Near-full employment and rising wages are driving inflation of about 6.5 percent a year, which is the root cause behind the bus fare increases that originally triggered protesters ' ire.
- enrage: If Brazil's recent economic boom is responsible for creating the bottlenecks that have enraged so many of the demonstrators, it will also likely limit their movement's appeal.
- vibrant: Brazil is a vibrant democracy with a variety of parties, most of them left of center.
- steam: The protests, which gathered steam last week and saw some 200,000 Brazilians demonstrate in a dozen cities on Monday, are unlikely to go away anytime soon.
- noisy: That is, the protests are a noisy sign of discontent among a swath of the population that is on average richer and better educated than average Brazilians.
- dragnet: Here's a look at some of the biggest names in the dragnet:.
- respite: Italian icons find no respite from tax man- Yahoo! News.
- insidious: While hiding income abroad may suit the jet-set, a more widely practiced and insidious form of evasion in Italy is the failure to issue receipts for anything from handy work to private medical visits to a cup of espresso.
- balloon: Many now protesting in Brazil's streets hail from the country's growing middle class, which government figures show has ballooned by some 40 million people over the past decade amid a commodities-driven economic boom.
- balloon: Beginning as protests against bus fare hikes, the demonstrations have quickly ballooned to include broad middle-class outrage over the failure of the government to provide basic services and ensure public safety, even as Brazil's economy modernizes and tax rates remain some of the highest in the world.
- endemic: The protesters say they 've lost patience with endemic problems such as government corruption and inefficiency.
- calm: It's not clear that will calm the country, though, with the protests already expanding to take on a wide range of other issues.
- loot: Police said those arrested had looted stores during the protest in downtown Sao Paulo and were caught running away with clothing, TV sets, microwave ovens and computers.
- dislodge: Buoyed by that victory, regime forces have been on an offensive to dislodge rebel fighters from areas they hold on the edge of Damascus and surrounding areas, as well as other towns in Homs and the northern province of Aleppo.
- recapture: The fighting in the area south of the capital is part of a wider military offensive by Assad's forces to recapture suburbs held by rebels and areas in the country's strategic heartland.
- impending: The main Western-backed opposition group, the Syrian National Coalition, warned of an impending humanitarian disaster.
- rampant: They 've been fighting there for a long time" and mistrust is rampant.
- avert: We know of at least 50 threats that have been averted because of this information, not just in the United States but in some cases threats here in Germany," he said.
- diligence: Chancellor Angela Merkel used a news conference with Obama Wednesday to appeal for " due diligence" in evaluating the privacy concerns, though she avoided a direct public confrontation with the president.
- seed: Speaking against the soaring backdrop of the Brandenburg Gate, Obama said that " bold reductions" to the U.S. and Russian nuclear forces were needed to move the two powers away from the war posture that continues to seed mistrust between their governments.
- pitfall: Obama also faced questions during his news conference with Merkel on deepening U.S. involvement in Syria and potential pitfalls in efforts to peacefully wind down the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan.
- implode: A report issued by the IMF praised Spain's reforms for stabilizing an economy that almost imploded last year, particularly by propping up public finances, but said the jobless rate is " unacceptably high and the outlook difficult.
- compliment: The organization went on to compliment Spain for restoring credibility to its economic policies through a series of harsh and unpopular austerity measures imposed last year by Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy.
- severance: Among the other measure the report recommended were for companies to be more flexible with setting shifts, more collective bargaining reforms and further reductions on severance pay following dismissals.
- calamity: It was interpreted as a financial market calamity that the Europeans, and especially the Germans, were clearly rich enough to solve.
- transatlantic: The transatlantic marketplace is still the heart of the world economy, the rise of China and others notwithstanding.
- transatlantic: The trade agreement should only be a building block toward a rebalanced transatlantic relationship.
- thermal: Many utilities have complained about soaring fuel costs to run conventional thermal power plants to make up for the shortfalls by idle nuclear plants.
- compulsory: The new requirements for the first time make compulsory that plants take steps to guard against radiation leaks in the case of severe accidents such as a core melt, install emergency command centers and enact anti-terrorist measures.
- melt: The new requirements for the first time make compulsory that plants take steps to guard against radiation leaks in the case of severe accidents such as a core melt, install emergency command centers and enact anti-terrorist measures.
- upgrade: Japan needs to build a stronger safety culture so that utilities proactively make safety upgrades as a positive business option rather than a burden, he said.
- circumscribe: He called it as a " circumscribed, narrow " surveillance program.
- equitable: Merkel, for her part, said it was important to continue debate about how to strike " an equitable balanc e" between providing security and protecting personal freedoms.
- sober: Five years later, Obama comes to deliver a highly anticipated speech to a country that's a bit more sober about his aspirations and the extent of his successes, yet still eager to receive his attention at a time that many here feel that Europe, and Germany in particular, are no longer U.S. priorities.
- stimulus: The U.S. and the Germans have clashed on economic issues, with Obama pressing for Europe to prime the economy with government stimulus measures, while Merkel has insisted on pressing debt-ridden countries to stabilize their fiscal situations first.
- insult: In the latest flap, a senior reconstruction official in charge of helping victims of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear crisis was dismissed last week after he used a scatological insult on Twitter to deride civil activists.
- deride: In the latest flap, a senior reconstruction official in charge of helping victims of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear crisis was dismissed last week after he used a scatological insult on Twitter to deride civil activists.
- composure: Another official's loss of composure at a United Nations committee meeting might have gone unnoticed in another time, but today it's on YouTube.
- reproach: Even Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been reproached for remarks on Facebook that some deemed disrespectful to his opponents.
- liability: As campaigning heats up for a pivotal July 21 election for the upper house of parliament, this relatively new tool for reaching the public appears as much a liability as it is a blessing.
- transport: Mass protests have been mushrooming across Brazil since demonstrations called last week by a group angry over the high cost of a woeful public transport system and a recent 10-cent hike in bus and subway fares in Sao Paulo, Rio and elsewhere.
- calm: It's not clear that will calm the country, though, because the protests have released a seething litany of discontent from Brazilians over life's struggles.
- seethe: It's not clear that will calm the country, though, because the protests have released a seething litany of discontent from Brazilians over life's struggles.
- modernize: Brazilian demonstrations in recent years generally had tended to attract small numbers of politicized participants, but the latest mobilizations have united huge crowds around a central complaint: The government provides woeful public services even as the economy is modernizing and growing.
- feed: A cyber-attack knocked the government's official World Cup site offline Tuesday, and the Twitter feed for Brazil's Anonymous hackers group posted links to a host of other government websites whose content had been replaced by a screen calling on citizens to come out to the streets.
- restive: BEIJING (Reuters)- China has completed a monitoring scheme in restive Tibet that requires all telephone and internet users to register under their real names, state media said on Wednesday, as part of a campaign to crack down on what officials describe as rumors.
- conducive: The scheme" is conducive to protecting citizens ' personal information and curbing the spread of detrimental informatio n" the report quoted government official Nyima Doje as saying.
- lax: Enforcement of similar rules for cellphones, especially pay-as-you-go services, is often lax, though.
- indignation: China's announcement of the successful completion of the telephone and internet monitoring program in Tibet comes as Chinese media and the government have expressed indignation at accusations of mass surveillance by the United States.
- awaken: Sharmini Coorey, director of the IMF's Institute for Capacity Development, says the financial crisis has awakened interest in how public finances are run.
- distrust: The economic downturn has seen a deepening distrust between the public and the financial sector.
- obsolete: This raised questions about whether the traditional degree course would be rendered over-priced and obsolete.
- fence: Coursera has almost 3.9 million students following university courses and each and every one of them can peer over the fence to see how courses are taught in other institutions.
- accredit: Sceptics point to the high dropout rates and the problems with accrediting such online courses, but it creates a level of accessibility that would have been impossible only a few years ago.
- seed: The male player with the highest accumulated total is seeded first and so on, with 32 seeds named in total.
- seed: Wimbledon's seeding committee is able to alter the women's list" to produced a balanced draw" if necessary, but they have stuck with the WTA rankings.
- seed: Maria Sharapova, the 2004 champion, is seeded third, with last year's runner-up, Agnieszka Radwanska, number four.
- annals: In the annals of human folly, it is doubtful if blood and cash have ever been splashed over anything quite so fabulous and frivolous as Faberge eggs.
- fabulous: In the annals of human folly, it is doubtful if blood and cash have ever been splashed over anything quite so fabulous and frivolous as Faberge eggs.
- frivolous: In the annals of human folly, it is doubtful if blood and cash have ever been splashed over anything quite so fabulous and frivolous as Faberge eggs.
- incalculable: It is also the story of the ambition and incalculable riches of the new rulers of Russia and the oligarchs.
- bauble: In a strong room in south London I set eyes on four of the eye-popping baubles, made for a ruler who in his day was one of the most powerful men on Earth.
- balloon: Demonstrations have ballooned from initial protests last week called by a group complaining about the high cost of a woeful public transport system and demanding a rollback of a 10-cent hike in bus and subway fares.
- transport: Demonstrations have ballooned from initial protests last week called by a group complaining about the high cost of a woeful public transport system and demanding a rollback of a 10-cent hike in bus and subway fares.
- emanate: While the protests have grown, reversing that fare hike remains the one concrete demand emanating from the streets.
- tremendous: The protests are gaining force each day, there is a tremendous energy that cannot be ignored," Barp said as demonstrators poured into the central plaza, which was aflutter with banners and echoing with chanted slogans.
- literacy: The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development found in a 2009 educational survey that literacy and math skills of Brazilian 15-year-olds ranked 53rd out of 65 countries, behind nations such as Bul garia, Mexico, Turkey, Trinidad and Tobago, and Romania.
- smash: Tuesday night's mostly peaceful demonstrations were marred by a small group of rioters who smashed the windows of Sao Paulo's city hall and then set fire to a police security post and a TV broadcaster's transmission van.
- balloon: The demonstrations started as small protests in a few cities against an increase in bus and subway fares but quickly ballooned into a national movement after police fired rubber bullets at protesters in Sao Paulo last week in clashes that injured more than 100 people.
- rubber: The demonstrations started as small protests in a few cities against an increase in bus and subway fares but quickly ballooned into a national movement after police fired rubber bullets at protesters in Sao Paulo last week in clashes that injured more than 100 people.
- compensate: Sao Paulo Mayor Fernando Haddad, a prominent figure in Rousseff's left-leaning W orkers ' Party, said in a meeting with leaders of the protest movement on Tuesday that he is considering a cut in bus fares but needs to find ways to compensate for the loss in revenue.
- vegetation: Archaeologists had long suspected that the city of Mahendraparvata lay hidden beneath a canopy of dense vegetation atop Phnom Kulen mountain in Siem Reap province.
- inscribe: It's really remarkable to see these traces of human activity still inscribed into the forest floor many, many centuries after the city ceased to function and was overgrown.
- map: Archaeologists had already spent years doing ground research to map a 9-square-kilometer ( 3.5-square-mile) section of the city's downtown area.
- excavate: The next step for researchers involves excavating the site, which Evans hopes will reveal clues about how many people once lived there.
- vegetation: It's a useful tool for archaeologists because the lasers can penetrate thick vegetation and cover swaths of ground far faster than they could be analyzed on foot.
- grisly: Republicans said the grisly trial of Philadelphia abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell served as reminder of why this law was needed.
- involuntary: In May, Gosnell was sent to prison for murdering three unborn babies and for the involuntary manslaughter of a patient who died of a drug overdose after she went to Gosnell for an abortion.
- overdose: In May, Gosnell was sent to prison for murdering three unborn babies and for the involuntary manslaughter of a patient who died of a drug overdose after she went to Gosnell for an abortion.
- fitful: Even when he manages a little fitful sleep he knows, without checking, exactly what time it is when he wakes up.
- comprehensible: He pauses every now and then as though searching for words that will make it all seem comprehensible to someone who never lived through it, who wasn't there.
- depravity: In part the sheer immensity of the Holocaust- the weight of the violence and depravity- made it incomprehensible to anyone who hadn't lived through it.
- parachute: Beside the ruin of a gas chamber in Auschwitz (the retreating Germans dynamited them to destroy the evidence of their crimes) I meet Aviv Reshef, a colonel in the Israeli parachute regiment.
- beguile: Once communism collapsed, Itai's grandmother began coming back on holiday visiting the beguiling summer mountain resorts of southern Poland.
- kiss: Streisand sang the Jewish prayer" Avinu Malkeinu," which Peres called " heavenly" and gave her a long embrace and two kisses on the cheek.
- tireless: His tireless campaigning for a peace agreement has won him supporters and sympathizers around the world.
- quintet: Former U.S. President Bill Clinton was ushered to the stage by a quintet of saxophones.
- cosmetic: He says Japan and the UNDP worked together with local women in northern Ghana to extract the oil from shea nuts for use in cosmetic products such as soaps and creams.
- rehabilitate: The country has also helped rehabilitate the city and suburbs of South Sudan’s capital, Juba, including its river port.
- mineral: Japan is looking to import rare earth minerals from the continent for high-tech manufacturing.
- inexpensive: Shigeki Komatsubara of the UNDP says many measures are simple and inexpensive to implement.
- dialect: Syrian dialect as they depicted Syrian refugees.
- scorch: We want to tell anyone with malicious intentions toward Jordan that we can hit back where it hurts most painfully," said one Jordanian comma ndo, speaking under scorching sun in the arid mountain region.
- onslaught: Jordan hosts more than half a million Syrians who fled Assad's military onslaught and that number is expected to rise to 1.2 million by the end of the year.
- clash: Already, protest organizers have clashed with Morsi supporters in several parts of the country, including clashes in the Nile Delta city of Tanta on Tuesday that left 10 injured.
- irrational: Senior Brotherhood leader Essam el-Erian told The Associated Press on Monday that the protest calls are " unconstitutional, illegal and irrational" and are not backed by genuine popular support.
- specter: Raising the specter of clashes, el-Erian said Morsi's supporters would defend the presidential palace in Cairo's Heliopolis district if " state institutions " fail to defend it against the protesters.
- deaf: In the polarization, talk of national reconciliation is falling on deaf ears.
- brass: Its top brass have over the months sent subtle but telling hints of their displeasure over the policies of Morsi and his Islamist backers.
- double: Williams, 33, struggled with the problem during the clay-court season and has not played since pulling out of the doubles at the French Open.
- double: Williams complained of back problems after her first round defeat at the French Open by Poland's Urszula Radwanska last month, then cited the injury when she and her sister Serena went on to pull out of the doubles competition.
- double: The pair are the defending doubles champions at the All England Club, having claimed their fifth title with a 7-5 6-4 victory over the Czech Republic's Andrea Hlavackova and Lucie Hradecka.
- defiant: Speaking at the end of the summit held in a secluded golf resort in Northern Ireland, Putin struck a defiant tone.
- censure: It has vetoed two United Nations Security Council resolutions censuring the Assad government, widely criticized for the ferocity with which it has waged the war.
- ferocity: It has vetoed two United Nations Security Council resolutions censuring the Assad government, widely criticized for the ferocity with which it has waged the war.
- ostensible: He said G8 leaders had also expressed doubts that Assad's forces had used chemical weapons, the ostensible reason for stepped-up U.S. involvement.
- rudimentary: The movement's military structure is based on an elite force backed by a full time militia and a large corps of part-time reserves who undergo rudimentary weapons training- often in Iran- but have jobs outside the group.
- topple: "As I promised you victory before, I pledge you victory now ," Hezbollah leaderSayyed Hassan Nasrallah said, launching a battle in which his fighters decisively defeated rebels trying to topple President Bashar al-Assad.
- theatre: It was a trademark coup de theatre from the reclusive Nasrallah, who has bred an aura of mystique around a force which grew from a shadowy Iranian-backed Lebanese militia into an outfit powerful enough to confront regional superpower Israel.
- reclusive: It was a trademark coup de theatre from the reclusive Nasrallah, who has bred an aura of mystique around a force which grew from a shadowy Iranian-backed Lebanese militia into an outfit powerful enough to confront regional superpower Israel.
- aura: It was a trademark coup de theatre from the reclusive Nasrallah, who has bred an aura of mystique around a force which grew from a shadowy Iranian-backed Lebanese militia into an outfit powerful enough to confront regional superpower Israel.
