(CNN) -- ISIS has released a new video of British hostage John Cantlie, this time showing him in the Syrian border city of Kobani.

In a segment that lasts for more than five minutes, Cantlie argues that -- unlike Western media accounts of recent days -- Kobani is mostly under control of the terror group, which calls itself the Islamic state.

He claims that ISIS fighters are mopping up, and that the all-out battle for the city is over. Kurdish forces in Syria have said the fight is far from finished, and that Iraqi Kurdish forces will soon be joining them.

Kurdish forces and ISIS militants have been clashing in the key border city for more than a month. On Sunday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 800 people have been killed there since the fighting started.

The video posted online Monday is the latest ISIS has released of Cantlie, who's been held hostage for nearly two years.

The British photojournalist, who also wrote several articles for major British newspapers, was kidnapped in November 2012 along with American journalist James Foley. In the first video of him released by the group last month, Cantlie made clear that he was forced to share a message from ISIS.

The video released Monday portrays Cantlie as a reporter in the field describing Kobani. The hostage, dressed in black, appears close enough to the border to see Turkish flags in the background.

"It seemed almost like a standup that a CNN correspondent would do in a foreign city," Peter Bergen, CNN national security analyst, said. "It was designed to show that he's relaxed, that what he's saying is accurate. But clearly he's under duress." What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Who has been holding John Cantlie?
2. Is he there against his will?
3. How long has he been there?
4. Where is he from?
5. What was his job?
6. When was he taken?
7. What month?
8. How has he recently been seen?
9. Who sent out the video?
10. How long is the video?
11. Does anyone speak in it?
12. What does he claim Isis is controlling the majority of?
Answer: 1. ISIS
2. Yes
3. nearly two years
4. He's British
5. a photojournalist
6. 2012
7. November
8. a video
9. ISIS
10. more than five minutes
11. He does
12. Kobani

Unlike chemists and physicists, who usually do their experiments using machines, biologists and medical researchers have to use living things like rats. But there are three Nobel prize-winning scientists who actually chose to experiment on themselves - all in the name of science, reported The Telegraph. 1. Werner Forssmann (Nobel prize winner in 1956) Forssmann was a German scientist. He studied how to put a pipe inside the heart to measure the pressure inside and decide whether a patient needs surgery. Experiments had been done on horses before, so he wanted to try with human patients. But it was not permitted because the experiment was considered too dangerous. Not giving up, Forssmann decided to experiment on himself. He anaesthetized his own arm and made a cut, putting the pipe 30 centimeters into his vein. He then climbed two floors to the X-ray room before pushing the pipe all the way into his heart. 2. Barry Marshall (Nobel prize winner in 2005) Most doctors in the mid-20th century believed that _ was down to stress, spicy food or an unusually large amount of stomach acid. But in 1979 an Australian scientist named Robin Warren found that the disease might be related to a bacteria called Helicobacter pylori. So he teamed up with his colleague, Barry Marshall, to continue the study. When their request to experiment on patients was denied, Marshall bravely drank some of the bacteria. Five days later, he lost his appetite and soon was vomiting each morning - he indeed had gastritis. 3. Ralph Steinman (Nobel prize winner in 2011) This Canadian scientist discovered a new type of immune system cell called the dendritic cell. He believed that it had the ability to fight against cancer. Steinman knew he couldn't yet use his method to treat patients. So in 2007, when doctors told him that he had cancer and that it was unlikely for him to live longer than a year, he saw an opportunity. With the help of his colleagues, he gave himself three different vaccines based on his research and a total of eight experimental therapies. Even though Steinman eventually died from his cancer, he lived four and a half years, much longer than doctors had said he would. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Do chemists usually use rats for their testing?
2. Who uses rats?
3. Who was Werner Forssmann?
4. when did he when the Nobel prize?
5. what did he study?
6. Which human did he want to perform an experiment on?
7. was he supposed to?
8. did he do it anyway?
9. what did he do to his arm?
10. then where did he go?
11. to do what?
12. Who was Ralph Steinman?
13. did he discover something?
14. what was it?
15. what disease did he think it could fight?
16. did he ever when the Nobel Prize?
17. when?
18. how did he die?
19. did he live longer than expected?
20. how much longer?
Answer: 1. yes
2. biologists and medical researchers
3. German scientist
4. 1956
5. He studied how to put a pipe inside the heart to measure the pressure inside and decide whether a patient needs surgery.
6. himself
7. No
8. Yes
9. made a cut, putting the pipe 30 centimeters into his vein
10. X-ray room
11. pushing the pipe all the way into his heart
12. Canadian scientist
13. a new type of immune system cell
14. the dendritic cell
15. cancer
16. yes
17. 2011
18. cancer
19. yes
20. four and a half years

CHAPTER XXXIV

'Midst furs, and silks, and jewels' sheen, He stood, in simple Lincoln green, The center of the glittering ring; And Snowdon's knight is Scotland's king! --_Lady of the Lake_.

The commencement of the following year was passed, on the part of the Americans, in making great preparations, in conjunction with their allies, to bring the war to a close. In the South, Greene and Rawdon made a bloody campaign, that was highly honorable to the troops of the latter, but which, by terminating entirely to the advantage of the former, proved him to be the better general of the two.

New York was the point that was threatened by the allied armies; and Washington, by exciting a constant apprehension for the safety of that city, prevented such reenforcements from being sent to Cornwallis as would have enabled him to improve his success.

At length, as autumn approached, every indication was given that the final moment had arrived.

The French forces drew near to the royal lines, passing through the neutral ground, and threatened an attack in the direction of King's Bridge, while large bodies of Americans were acting in concert. By hovering around the British posts, and drawing nigh in the Jerseys, they seemed to threaten the royal forces from that quarter also. The preparations partook of the nature of both a siege and a storm. But Sir Henry Clinton, in the possession of intercepted letters from Washington, rested within his lines, and cautiously disregarded the solicitations of Cornwallis for succor. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. who had the intercepted letters?
2. where did they come from?
3. did he accept cornwallis's requests?
4. what time of year was it?
5. did they think the time had come?
6. who went through neutral territory?
7. was there a threat of attack?
8. where?
9. what state was there a threat against?
10. by whom?
11. were they able to get reinforcements?
12. who prevented this?
13. who made a bloody campaign?
14. who was the better general?
15. what part of the U.S were they from?
16. who passed the commencement?
17. did anyone else help?
18. who?
19. did they prepare?
20. when was the commencement passed?
Answer:
1. Sir Henry Clinton
2. Washington
3. no
4. almost autumn
5. yes
6. The French forces
7. yes
8. in the direction of King's Bridge
9. New York
10. the allied armies
11. no
12. Washington
13. Greene and Rawdon
14. Greene
15. the South
16. the Americans
17. yes
18. their allies
19. yes
20. the following year