1. Hamas has wrestled control of the Gaza Strip from the Western-backed Fatah. It comes on the same day President Mahmoud Abbas declared a state of emergency and announced he's firing the Hamas prime minister and planning to install a new government.

2. Lewis "Scooter" Libby could be behind bars within weeks. That's because a federal judge said he won't delay the former White House aide's sentence in the CIA leak case.

3. The parents of a missing British girl are lashing out at the media for publishing an anonymous letter about the four-year-old's possible fate. It claims the girl is buried in a remote southern Portugal location.

4. And Paris Hilton is back in an all-women's jail. The socialite was transferred after spending nearly a week in a medical ward.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. wrestle: verb
Combating to overcome an opposing force.

2. lash out: phrase
If you lash out at someone or something, you speak to them or about them very angrily or critically.

3. ward: n-count
A ward is a room in a hospital which has beds for many people, often people who need similar treatment.