Q: Cantonese, or Standard Cantonese, is a variety of the Chinese language spoken around Canton (Guangzhou) and its vicinity in southeastern China. It is the traditional prestige variety of Yue, one of the major subdivisions of Chinese.

In mainland China, it is the "lingua franca" of the province of Guangdong and neighbouring areas such as Guangxi, being the majority language of the Pearl River Delta. It is the dominant and official language of Hong Kong and Macau. Cantonese is also widely spoken amongst overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia (most notably in Vietnam and Malaysia, as well as in Singapore and Cambodia to a lesser extent) and throughout the Western world.

While the term "Cantonese" refers narrowly to the prestige variety, it is often used in a broader sense for the entire Yue subdivision of Chinese, including related but largely mutually unintelligible languages such as Taishanese. When Cantonese and the closely related Yuehai dialects are classified together, there are about 80 million total speakers. Cantonese is viewed as vital part of the cultural identity for its native speakers across large swathes of southeastern China, Hong Kong and Macau.

Although Cantonese shares some vocabulary with Mandarin, the two varieties are mutually unintelligible because of differences in pronunciation, grammar and lexicon. Sentence structure, in particular the placement of verbs, sometimes differs between the two varieties. A notable difference between Cantonese and Mandarin is how the spoken word is written; both can be recorded verbatim but very few Cantonese speakers are knowledgeable in the full Cantonese written vocabulary, so a non-verbatim formalised written form is adopted which is more akin to the Mandarin written form. This results in the situation in which a Cantonese and a Mandarin text may look similar, but are pronounced differently.

1. Its a chinese language
2. Mainly Canton (Guangzhou) and its vicnity in southeastern China
3. Its one of the major subdivsions of China
4. An unintelligible language called Taishanese
5. Yes
6. around 80 million speakers
7. Yes
8. Hong Kong and Macau
9. Predominantly southeast Asia such as Vietnam and Malaysia
10. Somewhat alike, it shares some vocabulary with Mandarin

Numbered questions:
1. What is Cantonese?
2. Spoken where?
3. What part of Yue is it?
4. Cantonese is what part of Yue?
5. Is it a vital part of the culture?
6. About how many total speakers are there?
7. Is it the official language anywhere?
8. Where?
9. Where else is it widely spoken?
10. How alike is it to Mandarin?

Q: (CNN)Abror Habibov, 30, operated kiosks at malls along the East Coast. He sold kitchenware and repaired mobile phones, according to a complaint unsealed Wednesday in federal court in Brooklyn, New York.

Last fall, Habibov hired Akhror Saidakhmetov, 19, to work at kiosks in Savannah, Georgia; Philadelphia and Chesapeake, Virginia.

Abdurasul Juraboev, 24, a Uzbekistan native and legal permanent U.S. resident, worked at the Gyro King restaurant in Brooklyn. He asked his boss whether he could leave this weekend because he was traveling.

Until their arrests Wednesday in connection with an alleged failed attempt to join ISIS in Syria, Saidakhmetov and Juraboev appeared to live the mundane lives of ordinary Brooklyn immigrants.

They also appeared careless in planning their alleged plot. One man, for instance, showed up at U.S. Homeland Security offices to apply for a travel document, authorities said. They sometimes communicated online because they believed it would be harder for authorities to trace.

Juraboev allegedly discussed assassinating President Barack Obama, according to the complaint. But he told an FBI agent that he "currently does not have the means or an imminent plan to do so."

Juraboev and Saidakhmetov, authorities said, planned to embark on the journey to Turkey on Wednesday.

Read the criminal complaint against trio

One of them discussed the possibility of hijacking a commercial flight to Turkey and diverting it "to the Islamic State, so that the Islamic State would gain a plane," the complaint said. They also talked about joining the U.S. military in order to attack soldiers.

1. Juraboev
2. Uzbekistan
3. 24
4. yes
5. Gyro King restaurant in Brooklyn
6. Brooklyn
7. whether he could leave this weekend because he was traveling
8. that he "currently does not have the means or an imminent plan to do so."
9. Akhror Saidakhmetov
10. 19
11. he worked at kiosks
12. Three
13. Savannah
14. Philadelphia
15. Chesapeake
16. Abror Habibov
17. 30
18. he operated kiosks at malls along the East Coast ... sold kitchenware and repaired mobile phones
19. They sometimes communicated online because they believed it would be harder for authorities to trace.
20. Turkey

Numbered questions:
1. Who talked about killing President Obama?
2. Where is he from?
3. How old is he?
4. Is he a permanent U.S. resident?
5. Where did he work?
6. In what city?
7. What did he ask his boss?
8. What did he tell the FBI agent?
9. Who was his partner in crime?
10. How old is he?
11. What did he do for work?
12. In how many cities?
13. What was the first city?
14. The second city?
15. And the third?
16. Who hired him to work there?
17. How old is he?
18. What was his job?
19. What was one of the ways they were careless in planning their alleged plot?
20. Where were they planning to go on Wednesday?

Q: (CNN) -- A Florida jury awarded a widow $23.6 billion in punitive damages in her lawsuit against tobacco giant R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, her lawyer said.

Cynthia Robinson claimed that smoking killed her husband, Michael Johnson, in 1996. She argued R.J. Reynolds was negligent in not informing him that nicotine is addictive and smoking can cause lung cancer. Johnson started smoking when he was 13 and died of lung cancer when he was 36.

The jury award Friday evening is "courageous," said Robinson's lawyer, Christopher Chestnut.

"If anyone saw the documents that this jury saw, I believe that person would have awarded a similar or greater verdict amount," he said.

The Escambia County trial took four weeks and the jury deliberated for 15 hours, according to the Pensacola News Journal. The verdict included more than $16 million in compensatory damages, the newspaper said.

Nine ex-smokers on their last cigarette

Chestnut said five of the six jurors who heard the case were 45 or younger, which meant he had to show them how the tobacco industry presented its product before the public awareness campaigns on tobacco risks and dangers in the 1990s.

In a statement, J. Jeffery Raborn, vice president and assistant general counsel for R. J. Reynolds, said, "The damages awarded in this case are grossly excessive and impermissible under state and constitutional law.

"This verdict goes far beyond the realm of reasonableness and fairness and is completely inconsistent with the evidence presented," said Raborn. "We plan to file post-trial motions with the trial court promptly and are confident that the court will follow the law and not allow this runaway verdict to stand."

1. Smoke

Numbered questions:
1. What did John like to do?