News Headlines - 19 May 2012

▽Mafia suspected as bomb attack at Italian school kills teenage girl and wounds seven - Telegraph.co.uk
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/9276635/Mafia-suspected-as-bomb-attack-at-Italian-school-kills-teenage-girl-and-wounds-seven.html
No one has yet claimed responsibility for the attack, but the school is named after the wife of a famous anti-Mafia judge, Giovanni Falcone, who was blown up by the mob almost exactly 20 years ago.

▽Chinese dissident Chen flies to US with family - ABC Online
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-05-19/blind-chinese-activist-taken-to-airport/4021472?section=world
Chen Guangcheng, the high-profile Chinese dissident at the centre of a diplomatic dispute between Beijing and Washington, has left his homeland for the United States.

▽Merkel says Germany needs European market - AFP
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jMAgZ2i2WVj0jExrxpE5gXI-M6CQ?docId=CNG.73302069c1cfc1b61f105e55b53bd1ba.6c1
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday that Germany's economic health depends on that of the European Union, even though exports to the region are at a 20-year low.

▽Tidal power gets a stormy birth off coast of Scotland - BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18100191
The turbines, well below the waves, are also out of sight and probably out of mind. And the tidal currents are of course utterly carbon-free.

▽First private spacecraft launch of SpaceX is aborted - Telegraph.co.uk
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/9276765/First-private-spacecraft-launch-of-SpaceX-is-aborted.html
The US firm SpaceX aborts the lift-off of its Falcon rocket and Dragon cargo ship to the International Space Station during the final countdown.