Saturday, May  19th, 2012 at 4:26 am

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  • A 73-year-old Japanese woman on Saturday became the oldest woman to climb Mount Everest breaking her own 10-year-old record.

  • Two teenage girls have died and several students are hurt after an explosion by a school in the Italian city of Brindisi, its mayor said.

  • Chen Guangcheng, a prominent Chinese human rights activist, is believed to have left Beijing Saturday on a flight to New York.

  • The planned launch of a commercial SpaceX vehicle toward the International Space Station fizzled Saturday.

  • A car blast reportedly shook the city of Deir Ezzor on Saturday, opposition activists and the Syrian regime said, adding to a spate of similar recent bombings.

  • Concerns about whether Greece will pull out of the eurozone, and what that means for Europe's economy is the first topic on the G8 agenda, an official said.

  • The Olympic torch began its 70-day, 8,000-mile journey around Britain Saturday from Land's End in Cornwall, with Olympian Ben Ainslie first to carry the torch.

  • Donna Summer died of lung cancer, but the singer wasn't a smoker, and the cancer wasn't related to smoking, her family's representative said Friday.

  • NATO forces will be in Afghanistan until 2014, but each day the demands on them lessen as Afghan forces take on more responsibility.

  • U.S. President Barack Obama is hosting G8 and NATO summits this weekend.

  • A sergeant accused of killing five comrades at a combat stress clinic at a U.S. base in Iraq is mentally fit to stand trial, the Army said.

  • Thousands of people are planning viewing parties for the upcoming annular solar eclipse, in which the sun will appear as a thin ring behind the moon.

  • If the oddsmakers are right, the furious home stretch at Saturday's Preakness Stakes may look a lot like the race to the finish line at the Kentucky Derby.

  • A British Columbia man who held authorities at bay after strapping bombs to his body is presumed dead after the house he was holed up in exploded, police said.

  • Protesters in Bahrain marched through the streets Friday to criticize government plans to boost cooperation between the island state and Saudi Arabia.

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