1. U.S. helicopter missing after earthquake

    Nepali and U.S. troops were scouring* the area worst hit by a second large earthquake for a missing U.S. Marine helicopter on May 13.

    Home ministry official Laxmi Prasad Dhakal said at least 65 people had been killed on May 12.

    Most of the reported fatalities were in villages and towns such as Charikot, the capital of Dolakha, which were only just beginning to pick up the pieces from the massive April 25 quake that killed more than 8,000 people.

    2. 43 Shiites killed in Pakistan

    At least 43 Shiite* Muslims were killed and 13 wounded when gunmen opened fire on their bus in Karachi on May 13, Pakistani police said, in the second deadliest attack on the minority sect this year.

    Pakistan has seen a rising tide of sectarian* violence in recent years.

    “According to the initial information, which we have received from hospitals, 43 people have been killed and 13 wounded,” Ghulam Haider Jamali, police chief of Sindh province, told reporters at the site.

    “Six terrorists came on three motorcycles, they entered the bus and began firing indiscriminately*,” he said.

    3. Amtrak train derails in U.S., killing six

    An Amtrak passenger train with more than 200 passengers on board derailed* in north Philadelphia, the United States, on May 12, killing at least six people and injuring scores of others, several of them critically, authorities said.

    Authorities said they had no idea what caused the train wreck at about 9:30 p.m. local time that left some rail cars mangled, ripped open and strewn upside down and on their sides in the city’s Port Richmond neighborhood along the Delaware River.

    Survivors described scenes of horror and chaos as passengers and luggage were tossed around inside the careening train carriages.

    4. Egypt’s Morsi sentenced to death

    An Egyptian court on Saturday sentenced the country’s first freely elected leader, former Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, to death.

    Hours after the court ruling, three judges were shot dead in the Sinai Peninsula. It is unclear if the attack was linked to anger over the death sentence handed down to Morsi in Cairo.

    The sentence will likely further polarize* Egypt, a longtime U.S. ally grappling with an Islamist insurgency* that has intensified since Morsi’s overthrow.

    5. Massive crab caught in English Channel

    This massive crab caught in the English Channel has claws so powerful they could crush a man’s wrist.

    The giant edible brown crab was brought up from the deep off Portsmouth by a local fisherman.

    It weighs over 9 pounds (4 kilograms), has a body measuring 30 cm wide and boasts huge claws that have a crushing strength of over 90 pounds per square inch — nearly four times that of a human hand.

    The crab has been nicknamed Popeye because of its bulging* arms.

    6. Boston bomber sentenced to death

    Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was sentenced to death by a U.S. jury on May 15 for helping carry out the 2013 attack that killed three people and wounded 264 others in the crowds at the race’s finish line.

    The federal jury chose death by lethal injection for Tsarnaev, 21, over its only other option: life in prison without possibility of release. The same jury found Tsarnaev guilty last month of placing a pair of homemade pressure-cooker bombs on April 15, 2013, as well as fatally shooting a policeman. Tsarnaev stood quietly as the sentence was read, remaining as expressionless* as he had throughout most of the trial.(SD-Agencies)