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BELGIUM

19-year-old sets record for woman flying solo

Zara Rutherford, 19, set a record as the youngest woman to fly solo around the world, touching her small airplane down in western Belgium on Thursday－155 days after she departed. Rutherford will find herself in the Guinness World Records book after setting the mark that had been held by 30-year-old US aviator Shaesta Waiz since 2017. The overall record will remain out of Rutherford's grasp, since Briton Travis Ludlow set that benchmark last year as an 18-year-old. Rutherford's global flight was supposed to take three months, but relentless bad weather and visa issues kept her grounded sometimes for weeks, extending her adventure by nearly two months.

NORWAY

Mass killer shows no remorse, hearing told

Mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in 2011, has not reformed in prison and should be kept behind bars, a prosecutor told his parole hearing on Thursday. "He has demonstrated no empathy or genuine regret," Hulda Karlsdottir said in closing remarks at the end of three days in court. "He continues to glorify his own role." Breivik, an anti-Muslim neo-Nazi, killed eight people with a car bomb in Oslo and then gunned down 69 more, most of them teenagers, in Norway's worst peacetime atrocity.

Agencies - Xinhua