1. Sailors killed

A total of 13 Chinese sailors, who were on two ships hijacked by drug traffickers last week, were confirmed dead after investigators found the 13th body on Mekong River in north Thailand's Chiang Rai Province, local authorities said on Monday.

Searchers found the body in nearby Chiang Khong District early Monday, said Seramsak Seesan, chief of Chiang Rai's Chiang Saen District, where the other bodies were found. The two hijacked Chinese-flagged ships reportedly had 13 crew members.

2. Steve Jobs dies

Steve Jobs, who built the world's most valuable technology company by creating devices that changed how people use electronics and revolutionized the computer, music and mobile phone industries, died last Wednesday at the age of 56.

"Steve's brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives," Apple's board said in a statement.

Jobs had battled cancer in 2004 and underwent a liver transplant* in 2009 after taking a leave of absence* for unspecified health problems. He took another leave of absence in January -- his third since his health problems began -- and officially resigned in August.

3. Nobel Peace Prize

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, compatriot* "peace warrior" Leymah Gbowee and Yemen's Arab Spring activist Tawakkul Karman won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in a nod to women's empowerment*.

The three shared the 2011 award "for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work," Norwegian Nobel Committee president Thorbjoern Jagland said.

4. Nobel Economics Nobel

U.S. researchers Thomas Sargent and Christopher Sims won the 2011 Nobel Economics Prize on Monday for their work on macro-economics and government economic policymaking, the Nobel jury said.

This year's laureates* "have developed methods for answering ... questions regarding the causal relationship between economic policy and different macro-economic variables*, such as GDP, inflation, employment and investments," the jury said.

5. Soldiers accused of raping

Two U.S. soldiers have been accused of raping teenage girls in South Korea in separate incidents, prompting U.S. military officials to apologize on Saturday as they tried to ease growing public anger.

Army Brig. Gen. David Conboy, who supervises the U.S. garrison* in Seoul, issued a statement apologizing for "pain" caused by allegations that a U.S. soldier raped a girl in her rented room in Seoul on September 17. That solider -- a private in his early 20s -- is being questioned by police but has not been arrested.

Another U.S. private has been arrested on suspicion of raping a teenage girl on September 24 in a city north of Seoul.

6. Wall Street protests

Anti-Wall Street demonstrators said on Saturday they are growing out of their lower Manhattan encampment* and are exploring options to expand to other public spaces in New York City.

Protesters complaining about what they view as corporate greed have been camped out near Wall Street in Zuccotti Park for three weeks, staging rallies* and marches that have mostly proceeded peacefully but have also resulted in confrontations* with police.

7. Cairo riots

Flames lit up downtown Cairo, where massive clashes raged* on Sunday, drawing Christians angry over a recent church attack, hard-line Muslims and Egyptian security forces. At least 24 people were killed and more than 200 injured in the worst violence since the uprising* that ousted* Hosni Mubarak in February.

The rioting lasted late into the night, bringing out a deployment* of more than 1,000 security forces and armored vehicles to defend the state television building along the Nile, where the trouble began.