Daniel Tovrov

The small tourist plane was making an hour-long sightseeing tour of Mount Everest, and went down on its return to Katmandu, the Nepalese capital. The passengers included two Americas, one Japanese man and 10 Indians.

Banda conceded to Sata on Friday, ending three days of riots and protesting. The presidential vote was held nationwide on Tuesday, but the government had been slow to tally the votes, a fact which angered eager Zambians.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's United Nations speech on Thursday angered a number of world leaders, especially the delegates from the United States, who walked out of the General Assembly while Ahmadinejad soliloquized.

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Attacking the U.S., September 11, NATO and a number of other topics, Iran's President Ahmadinejad gave a long, controversial address to the United Nations. Full text reprinted here.

The trip is being hailed as an historic visit, and the Pope will speak before German parliament, meet with Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Christian Wulff and lead a mass. About 100 parliamentarians have already boycotted Benedict's speech, and thousands of people have gathered to protest his presence.

After 85 of 150 voting districts have been tallied, Sata leads the race with 43 percent of the vote, compared to President Banda's 36 percent. However, Banda still leads in the most recent opinion polls.

China banned an annual dog-eating festival after a large public outcry over the way the animals were killed. The event in Qianxi Township outside Jinhua City in Zhejiang Province has been going on for 600 years, but both local and international outrage has stopped the event.

Zambia held presidential elections Tuesday, but two days later only 85 of the country's 150 constituencies have reported results, sparking wide-scale unrest in the country and again bringing up fraud allegations. While all eyes are on Zambia, one nation's gaze is especially fixed: China.

On Tuesday, the bodies of 23 men and 12 women were left on a highway at rush hour. They dead bodies showed signs of torture. The murders are considered the latest casualties in the Mexico's ongoing drug war.

Typhoon Roke is moving off shore and toward the Kuril Island archipelago between Japan and Russia, according to reports. The storm is still pounding the central Japan with rain, including the Fukushima nuclear power plant, which has so far avoid any major damage.

As of Jan. 1, 2011, there were 3,251 total prisoners on death row in the U.S., but the number of executions per year has been declining over the past decade. Despite the decline, the United States still executes the fourth most people of any country in the world.

Typhoon Roke is currently pounding central Japan, causing massive blackouts, flooding and at least three deaths.

Typhoon Roke, the second typhoon to hit Japan this month, has left more than 250,000 households without power. Three people have been confirmed dead, while more are considered missing.

The storm made landfall near the city of Hamamatsu, about 125 miles west of Tokyo, and it is expected to move toward the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant

American hikers Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer have been released from prison in Iran, the U.S. State Department said Wednesday.

Mexican congressman Moises Villanueva de la Cruz was found murdered on Saturday, his body discovered lying on a highway in the coastal state of Guerrero.

The African Union officially recognized the National Transitional Council as the legitimate government of Libya. South African President Jacob Zuma made the announcement on Tuesday.

Six thousand troops have been deployed to the India-Nepal border, where a 6.9 magnitude earthquake hit Sunday night. The current death toll has risen to 90 people, about 50 from the Indian state of Sikkim, along with others in Nepal and Tibet.

Burhanuddin Rabbani, the head of Afghanistan's High Peace Council, was killed by an unidentified attacker at his home in Kabul on Tuesday.

Delegates from a political organization called The Pirate Party won 15 seats in Germany's state parliament after winning almost nine percent of a vote in Berlin on Sunday. So who exactly are these pirates?

Seven scientists are on trial in Italy for manslaughter charges relating to more than 300 deaths from an 2009 earthquake in L'Aquila.

In the book, titled The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin, written by Joe McGinniss and due out Tuesday, a woman in Todd Palin's hometown of Dillingham, Alaska said that Todd Palin hit on me constantly in the mid-1990s.

Three successive earthquakes hit Guatemala on Monday, shaking buildings as far as 30 miles away and inciting landslides and public panic. At least one person was reportedly killed.

Tristane Banon -- the French writer who has accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault -- said she will sue the former-banker if French authorities decide not to open a criminal trial.

None of India's 20 nuclear power plants were disturbed by the earthquake, officials said Monday. The nuclear facility closest to the quake's epicenter is the Narora Power Station, some 800 miles to the west. The quake hit Sunday night, and the death toll has reached 74 people.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn spoke publicly for the first time since returning to France. During an interview on French television station TF1 on Sunday night, the former head of the International Monetary Fund expressed his infinite regret over his affair with hotel maid Nafissatou Diallo in May.

Dubbed, North Korea Party Rock Anthem ft. Kim Jong Il, the new YouTube video for the shuffling song replaces the real music video with footage from North Korean military parades. In the video, soldiers and even Supreme Leader Kim Jong-il are seen lip-syncing the lyrics.

Gunmen killed 36 people at a bar in the city of Gatumba, near the Congolese border on Monday. The proximity to the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo has led Burundian government officials to believe that the killers came from Congo.