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Yuichiro Miura (r), 80 year old Japanese extreme skier, and his son Gota (l), at South Col camp, Nepal. (AP Photo)

Japanese man, 80, oldest to top Everest – for now

KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — An 80-year-old Japanese man who began the year with his fourth heart operation became the oldest conqueror of Mount Everest on Thursday, a feat he called “the world’s best feeling” even […]

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The British Library building in London. (AP Photo)

Beatles’ lyrics headed for British Library

LONDON (AP) — Shakespeare, the Magna Carta — and now some of John Lennon’s finest lyrics. The British Library on Wednesday added substantially to its already formidable collection with handwritten lyrics to Beatles’ classics “Strawberry […]

2013/05/22

Police and ambulance service at site of assault, Woolwich, southeast London, England. (AP Photo)

UK official: London attack could be terror-related

LONDON (AP) — Two men attacked another man near a London military barracks Wednesday, in what British authorities were investigating as a possible terror act. One man is dead and two others were injured. While […]

2013/05/22

Seismograph reading of an earthquake. (AP Photo)

Large earthquake strikes off coast of Chile

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A magnitude-6.5 earthquake struck off the coast of Chile on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, but Chilean officials said it was not felt on land and discarded the possibility […]

2013/05/20

Canada trying to lure Silicon Valley tech workers

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — The Canadian government is trying to lure Silicon Valley tech workers who are frustrated by U.S. visa policies, just as Congress wrestles with a long-sought overhaul of America’s immigration system. […]

2013/05/18

Ex-Argentine dictator Jorge Rafael Videla (AP Photo)

Argentine ex-dictator Videla dies in prison

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Former dictator Jorge Rafael Videla, who took power in a 1976 coup and led a military junta that killed thousands of his fellow Argentines in a war to eliminate “subversives,” […]

2013/05/17

EU to ban reusable olive oil bottles in eateries

BRUSSELS (AP) — The small glass bottle filled, and refilled, with golden olive oil has long been a staple on many restaurant tables across Europe. Now, the European Union is going to ban it. The […]

2013/05/17