1. North Korea is saying it has shut down a nuclear reactor. That announcement comes hours after oil aid arrived there. A UN inspection team is headed to the reactor to confirm the news. The shutdown would be the first step toward denuclearization in nearly five years.

2. Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki says his army and police units are capable of keeping security would American troops leave, but he says his forces need more weapons and training. The White House concedes that not enough progress has been made in training Iraqi forces.

3. Former presidents and first ladies are among those attending the private funeral in Austin, Texas for Lady Bird Johnson. More than eighteen hundred people have been celebrating the memory of the former first lady. She would be buried Sunday next to her husband at the LBJ ranch.

4. A man in Sydney Australia led police officers on a destructive 90-minute chase in a stolen tank. Authorities say the man crashed into several mobile phone towers, telecommunications buildings and an electricity substation before being arrested.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. denuclearization: noun
the act of removing nuclear arms

2. be headed:
to go or travel towards a particular place, especially in a deliberate way

3. concede: intransitive and transitive verb
to admit that something is true or correct, although you wish it were not true

4. telecommunication: noun
communication at a distance (as by telephone)

5. substation: countable noun
a place where electricity is passed on from the place that produces it into the main system