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Published: 25/05/2012 at 01:48 PM Online news: Asia Tweet More than 200 mountaineers are set to head for the summit of Mount Everest on Friday and Saturday, risking perilous overcrowding just a week after four died on the packed trail in bad weather. In this photo, released by Neal Beidleman in 2011, unidentified mountaineers are seen walk past the Hillary Step while pushing for the summit of Everest.

Montreal: Nearly 700 people were arrested on Thursday after a protest over higher university tuition in Quebec erupted into another night of violence. The student protests have only grown since the provincial government last week passed emergency legislation in an attempt to end Canada's most sustained student demonstrations ever. The protest was declared illegal by police the minute it was scheduled to

British climber Kenton Cool, seen here in March, has reached the summit of Everest, his website announced, fulfilling an 88-year-old promise to carry an Olympic gold medal to the top of the world's highest peak. British climber Kenton Cool shows an Olympic gold medal awarded to Arthur Wakefield in 1924 as he prepares to reach the summit of Everest.

Usain Bolt... top condition. Usain Bolt will open his European track season in the Czech Republic today full of confidence, in top shape and eyeing the ultimate prize - more Olympic medals. The talk in athletics in any Olympic year is of the revered Games themselves, when track and field take centre stage at the world's largest sporting event. Bolt revolutionised sprinting, and indeed athletics, four years ago in

The Canadian Press Calgary led the country in month-to-month new home price increases in April. (CBC) Toronto and Calgary led the country in rising home prices last month, according to the Canadian Real Estate Association. The MLS Home Price Index stood at 154.7 in April, up 5.2 percentage points nationally from a year ago and up 1.18 points from March. The Toronto had the biggest year-to-year jump while Calgary led the country on a month-to-month basis.