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Activist Chen 'to leave China'
19/05/2012 07:42
Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng, whose stay at the US embassy sparked a diplomatic crisis, says he is at Beijing airport expecting to go to the US.
Aborted lift-off for spaceship
19/05/2012 09:22
The US firm SpaceX aborts the lift-off of its Falcon rocket and Dragon ship to the International Space Station.
Olympic torch relay sets off
19/05/2012 08:23
Sailor Ben Ainslie is the first torchbearer as the Olympic flame begins its 70-day tour of the UK in the build up to the London 2012 games.