KARATE KID

 The remake of the cult film “Karate Kid” makes allusions to the original, but also brings in new elements.
Dre is an American boy who moves to Beijing with his mother. There he is badly bullied. He has no friends in
the new country.

Italy country profile by BBC NEWS

Take the art works of Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Tintoretto and Caravaggio, the operas of Verdi and Puccini, the cinema of Federico Fellini, add the architecture of Venice, Florence and Rome and you have just a fraction of Italy's treasures from over the centuries. 

Astonishing accident involving eight Ferraris 'world's most expensive car crash'

Afleet of high-performance cars, including eight Ferraris, has been involved inone of the most expensive accidents in history after an astonishing multi-carpile-up in Japan.

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Origin of Thanksgiving Day

Thanksgiving is America's preeminent day. It is celebrated every year on the fourth Thursday in the month of November. It has a very interesting history. Its origin can be traced back to the 16th century when the first thanksgiving dinner is said to have taken place.

T-SHIRT tells all.

That's right, a t-shirt with inbuilt intelligence! UC3M (Carlos III University in Madrid) has developed an intelligent t-shirt, designed for use in hospitals, to monitor certain body functions and conditions.

EVERYTHING I SAW WAS GONE

For the past months, a series of violent storms have been pounding the US. The

extreme weather conditions have claimed hundreds of victims. On Friday, the death toll had reached 280. Last week alone, more than three hundred tornadoes were reported. On Wednesday, 128 people were killed, just in Alabama. Entire areas in the town of Tuscaloosa have been levelled to the ground.

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"It just didn't seem real", said one eyewitness. "I can't describe what I saw," said another. "You could hear it. That classic rumble, the train, and all of those other things
that you hear people talk about."
Heavy rains have aggravated the situation. Rivers have flooded, lightning has set buildings on fire, and hailstones the size of golf balls have caused extensive damage.
A state of emergency has been declared in Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee and Oklahoma. The army has been called in for rescue operations. 

Watch the video

This video is from the EF4 tornado that went through Tuscaloosa, AL on 4/27/11. It was taken from the University Mall parking lot. Probably the closest video to the storm your going to see.

Now write a test on what happened in Liguria last week in no more than 80/100 words.
You can insert images if you want.  

Italian sport in shock after death of Simoncelli

SEPANG: Italian sport was in shock on Sunday after Marco Simoncelli died following a crash at the Malaysian MotoGP motorcycle race. He was 24.