This week on YouTube

This Week's Top News Stories on YouTube--Palestinians make history at the UN, a highly controversial death penalty case, and Republicans square off in their seventh debate.

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 watched as hundreds of protesters in New York City marched to "Occupy Wall Street" in an effort to end "corporate greed."
• We witnessed powerful Typhoon Roke sweep through Japan and cause heavy flooding and landslides that left as many as thirteen people dead or missing as 2.2 million residents across the country were ordered to evacuate their homes.
• We observed the highly contentious request by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to the United Nations for full Palestinian statehood recognition while clashes erupted between Palestinians and Israeli soldiers and settlers in the West Bank.
• We kept track of attempts to save convicted felon Troy Davis from his eventual controversial execution in Georgia.
• We followed a busy week on the US campaign trail as President Obama took aim at the wealthy saying they must pay their fair share of taxes while the Republican contenders squared off in their seventh debate.
• We held our breath as markets continued to slide amid fears of a global recession while Greeks protested austerity measures.
• We monitored a bloody week in Yemen where armed security forces reportedly killed numerous anti-government protesters as they marched for their rights and mourned their martyrs.
• And finally, we saw baseball's NY Yankees clinch their twelfth AL East title in sixteen years after they beat the Tampa Bay Rays in both games of a double-header.