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Posted on May 23, 2013 at 10:27am

(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 with an 81-year-old Nepalese climber not far behind him.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 10:25am

(AP) — La Scala's manager says the 2013-14 season will have three fewer operas than usual due to the economic crisis.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 10:23am

(AP) — Suicide bombers in Niger detonated two car bombs simultaneously on Thursday, one inside a military camp in the city of Agadez and another in the remote town of Arlit at a French-operated uranium mine, killing a total of 26 people and injuring 30, according to officials in Niger and France.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 10:21am

(AP) — The World Health Organization says there are now 22 deaths worldwide out of 44 lab-confirmed cases of the new coronavirus.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 10:21am

(AP) — A band of thunderstorms battered the Oklahoma City area Thursday, slowing cleanup operations in the suburb where a tornado killed 24 people and destroyed thousands of homes this week.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 10:21am

(AP) — An American citizen killed in a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan in 2011 was arrested by Pakistani authorities three years earlier but escaped after being released on bail, officials said Thursday.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 10:19am

(AP) — U.S. Navy Lt. Mike McGrath was just 27 years old, with a wife and two toddler sons in the U.S., when he was shot down and taken prisoner on his 179th bombing mission during the Vietnam War.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 10:19am

(AP) — Sales of new homes rose in April to the second highest level since the summer of 2008 while the median price for a new home hit a record high, further signs that housing is recovering.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 10:17am

(AP) — Russia's top military officer on Thursday voiced skepticism about deeper nuclear arms cuts, saying they should require parallel reductions in non-nuclear precision weapons.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 10:16am

(AP) — Reading, writing, 'rithmetic — and PE?

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 10:12am

(AP) — Financial markets around the world were roiled Thursday after Japanese stocks suffered their biggest slide since the country was hit by a devastating tsunami more than two years ago.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 10:10am

(AP) — Police say an expensive necklace was stolen overnight in the luxurious resort town of Cap d'Antibes, the second jewelry theft on the French Riviera during the Cannes Film Festival.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 10:08am

(AP) — The EU has something important to say about its proposal to regulate olive oil on restaurant tables: Uh, never mind.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 10:04am

(AP) — Cycling federation president Pat McQuaid says an independent panel will examine the allegations that the UCI was complicit in Lance Armstrong's doping.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 10:02am

(AP) — A Chechen immigrant shot to death in Florida after an altercation with an FBI agent implicated himself in a triple slaying that officials believe may have been connected to Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, authorities said.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 10:01am

(AP) — Average rates on fixed mortgage rose for the third straight week, hitting their highest levels since mid-March. Still, mortgage rates remained close to historic lows, a trend that should help sustain the housing recovery.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 10:01am

(AP) — US new home sales rise 2.3 percent in April while median home prices hit record high.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 10:00am

(AP) — The Socialists, who finished second in Bulgaria's election this month, were asked to form a new government Thursday, after the front-running party was unable to.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 9:59am

(AP) — Two men accused of butchering a British soldier had featured in previous investigations by security services, a British official said Thursday, as investigators searched several locations and tried to determine whether the men were part of a wider plot to instill terror on the streets of London.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 9:55am

(AP) — Paolo Sorrentino has a thing about food — appropriately enough, for the director of a sumptuous feast of a film, "The Great Beauty."