An Italian emergency official says a bomb exploded outside a school in southern Italy Saturday morning, killing one person and injuring as many as six others. The blast occurred in the city of Brindisi as students were arriving at their vocational school. The official said there may have been more than one explosion. Local media […]
73-Year-Old Woman Climbs Mt. Everest
Posted May 19th, 2012 at 3:50 am (UTC-5)
A 73-year old Japanese mountaineer has climbed Mount Everest, smashing her record to again become the oldest woman to scale the world’s highest peak. Tamae Watanabe reached the 8,850-meter summit Saturday with four other team members, climbing Everest from its Tibetan side. Watanabe had scaled the mountain in 2002 when she first claimed the title […]
Chinese Activist Says He’s at Beijing Airport
Posted May 19th, 2012 at 3:05 am (UTC-5)
Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng says he has left a hospital and is at Beijing’s international airport. He said Saturday he believes he will be flying to the U.S., but he’s not sure. The blind activist said his wife and two children are with him, but the three do not yet have passports. Chen said earlier […]
Private US Firm Attempts Historic Space Launch
Posted May 19th, 2012 at 2:55 am (UTC-5)
A U.S.-based firm is poised to make history on Saturday by becoming the first private company to send a craft to the International Space Station. The SpaceX company is planning to launch an unmanned capsule, loaded with supplies for the space station, from Cape Canaveral, Florida . In a Friday briefing, SpaceX president Gwynn Shotwell […]
Burma’s Suu Kyi to Address British Parliament
Posted May 19th, 2012 at 2:25 am (UTC-5)
Burma’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will give a historic speech to both houses of Britain’s parliament next month when she makes her first trip outside the country in 24 years. British Prime Minister David Cameron invited the Nobel Peace Prize winner to come to Britain when he visited her in Burma in April. […]
G8 Leaders Discuss Iran, Syria at Summit
Posted May 19th, 2012 at 1:45 am (UTC-5)
Leaders of the largest industrialized countries have agreed to keep pressure on Iran to disclose more about its nuclear program and on the need to focus on a political transition in Syria. Senior U.S. officials say the situations involving the two countries were discussed by Group of Eight leaders who held their initial talks on […]
G8 Leaders Discuss Iran, Syria at Summit
Posted May 19th, 2012 at 12:10 am (UTC-5)
Leaders of the largest industrialized countries have agreed to keep pressure on Iran to disclose more about its nuclear program and on the need to focus on a political transition in Syria. Senior U.S. officials say the Group of Eight leaders found common ground on the issues during talks on global security issues Friday, at […]
