1. Virginia Tech gunman Cho Seung-Hui was picked on, pushed around and laughed at while attending a northern Virginia high school. Classmates say Cho almost never opened his mouth because of speech difficulties.

2. A long day in the witness chair for Attorney General Alberto Gonzales appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. He fought off calls for his resignation over the firing of eight prosecutors. Gonzales's saying he did nothing improper.

3. A jury is deliberating the fate of Mary Winkler, a Tennessee preacher's wife accused of shooting her husband. During the trial, Winkler said a shotgun went off by accident, but her marriage was allegedly troubled with physical and sexual abuse.

4. There's a newest sensation at an Australian zoo - a pair of two-week old Sumatran tiger cubs, the rare breed weighing in at five and a half pounds. There are only 205 Sumatran cubs born in Asia and Australia in the past decade.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. pick on: phrase
If someone picks on you, they deliberately criticize you unfairly or treat you unkindly. (INFORMAL)

2. push around: phrase
If someone pushes you around, they give you orders in a rude and insulting way. (INFORMAL)

3. fight off: phrase
If you fight off something, for example an illness or an unpleasant thing, you succeed in getting rid of it and in not letting it overcome you.

4. prosecutor: n-count
In someone countries, a prosecutor is a lawyer or official who brings charges against someone or tries to prove in a trial that they are guilty.

5. weigh in: phrase
If someone weighs in at a particular weight, for example before competition a sports competition, their weight is measured at that amount. (JOURNALISM)