Example of a News Report:

Headline: Queen Elizabeth II dies Byline: by Harold Gornis

(Lead) On Thursday afternoon, the UK's longest-serving monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, died at her Scottish estate Balmoral. After reigning for 70 years the queen died at the age of 96. (body) Elizabeth was born on April 21, 1926, and she never expected to ascend to the throne. However, when Elizabeth's uncle, Edward Vill, abdicated in 1936, her father George VI became the king, and she became heir to the throne. She was only 25 when she became the queen, and Winston Churchill was the first of 15 prime ministers that served with her. During her reign, 14 US presidents served. Elizabeth married Prince Phillip, and their marriage remained solid for 74 years, until his death in April

2021. The couple had four children, and Charles, born in 1948, has now become the king (conclusion) Most people described Elizabeth as a dignified, down-to-earth, and witty woman whose lifelong passions, aside from her public duties, were horse racing and corgis

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Summary of Daedalus and Icarus story

Icarus was the son of Daedalus, the craftsman who built the Labyrinth (which featured in the story of Theseus and the Minotaur which we've discussed in a previous post). But after Daedalus aided Ariadne by telling her how Theseus could escape the Labyrinth he'd designed, King Minos locked Daedalus and his son, Icarus, inside the maze.

Ever the inventor, Daedalus fashioned some wings out of feathers and wax, for him and his son to use to fly their way off the island of Crete. They escaped and flew up into the sky Daedalus warned his son not to fly too close to the sun; however, Icarus got carried away an promptly did just that, upon which the wax in his wings melted. He fell to his death, drowning the sea surrounding the island of Samos, a sea which is now named after him. Daedalus reache Cumae and then took refuge at Camicos on the isle of Sicily.​