BEIJING (Reuters) – Blind Chinese legal activist Chen Guangcheng said on Saturday he had left a hospital in Beijing and was at the airport where he expected to be departing for the United States, a move that would signal the end of a diplomatic crisis between the two country.

RIYADH, May 19 (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia’s non-oil exports rose 31 percent in 2011 to 176.6 billion riyals ($47.1 billion) compared to 2010, Arab News reported on Saturday citing the Central Department of Statistics.

ROME, May 19 (Reuters) – A bomb exploded in front of a school in the southern Italian town of Brindisi on Saturday, killing one person and injuring at least six people, an official from the Civil Protection authority said.

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

An 81-year-old woman proves it’s never too late to get your college degree. WTNH reports.

Scottish international Craig Gordon’s nightmare spell at English Premier League side Sunderland ended on Saturday when he was released by Martin O’Neill just five years after being signed for a British record fee for a goalkeeper.

India has outlined plans to curb government foreign trips as part of an austerity drive and says it is “vigorously” committed to curtailing ballooning spending.

A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden car outside security headquarters in Syria’s biggest eastern city of Deir Ezzor on Saturday, causing casualties, state TV reported.

A suicide car bomb blast shook Syria’s eastern city of Deir el-Zour Saturday, targeting a military compound in the latest of a wave of blasts to hit the country in recent months, the country’s state media reported.

An Iraqi anti-terror officer, his wife and three children have been shot dead by gunmen in north Baghdad, security and medical officials said on Saturday.