diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index fff9587..230c3b3 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@ Release 0.7.5 (28 May, 2013)
 
 Changes in all components:
 
- * Improved error checking. Patches probived by Rob Davies.
+ * Improved error checking on memory allocation and file reading/writing.
+   Patches provided by Rob Davies.
 
  * Updated README.
 
@@ -29,7 +30,7 @@ Changes in BWA-MEM:
 Changes in BWA-backtrack:
 
  * Added a magic number to .sai files. This prevents samse/sampe from reading
-   corrupted (e.g. a .sai file containing LSF log) or incompatible .sai
+   corrupted .sai (e.g. a .sai file containing LSF log) or incompatible .sai
    generated by a different version of bwa.
 
  * Bugfix: alignments in the XA:Z: tag were wrong.