1. The Coast Guard says all passengers have been evacuated from the Empress of the North cruise ship which ran aground off Alaska's coast this morning.

2. Parents are outraged after staffs at one Tennessee elementary school staged a gun attack on students during a school trip. The principal is calling it an act of poor judgment.

3. German-based Daimler Chrysler will sell almost all of the money-losing Chrysler Group to a private equity firm for 7.4 billion dollars. Cerberus has agreed to take on the company's pension and retiree health care costs.

4. And as the search for missing Briton Madeleine McCann continues, media reports say more than 5 million dollars has been added to a reward fund. Celebrity benefactors include American Idol judge Simon Carl and Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. aground: adv
If a ship runs aground, it touches the ground in a shallow part of a river, lake or the sea and gets stuck.

2. outrage: verb
If you are outraged by something, it makes you extremely shocked and angry.

3. benefactor: n-count
A benefactor is a person who helps a person or organization by giving them money.