This Week's Top News Stories on YouTube--tensions in Egypt, New Zealand's oil disaster, and global Blackberry outages
Everyday on the CitizenTube Channel (and @CitizenTube on Twitter), along with our curation partners @storyful, we look at how the top news stories are covered on YouTube. Every week we'll post a weekly recap of the top news stories of the week:
- We saw a dramatic renewal of tensions in Egypt after deadly clashes broke out between Coptic Christian protesters and army forces that killed at least 24 people.
- We watched an environmental disaster unfold in New Zealand because of tons of oil from the crashed cargo ship Rena spilling into the Bay of Plenty and onto nearby beaches.
- We witnessed Occupy Wall Street protesters in New York take aim at Fox News and Occupy protesters in Boston forcibly removed from Dewey Square.
- We celebrated the eightieth birthday of world-renowned South African activist Archbishop Desmond Tutu amidst the controversy of the Dalai Lama not being granted a visa to attend.
- We observed dramatic, deadly flooding half a world a part devastate local communities in Thailand and Mexico.
- We enjoyed the beautiful fairy tail royal wedding of the king of Bhutan and his commoner bride.
- We followed Mitt Romney on the US campaign trail as he received a coveted endorsement from New Jersey governor Chris Christie, as well as all of the GOP candidates as they debated economic policy in New Hampshire.
- We monitored intense Arab Spring fighting in Bahrain, Syria, and Libya.
- We tracked massive Blackberry outages as they spread across the globe and the angry backlash from frustrated customers.
- And finally, we reflected on ten years of war in Afghanistan by looking at the fighting, protests, and politics surrounding the conflict.