This Week's Top News Stories on YouTube

This Week's Top News Stories on YouTube--Michael Jackson's doctor goes on trial, Typhoon Nesat rips through the Philippines and China, and the passing of the first African woman Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

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 the highly anticipated trial of Michael Jackson's personal doctor get underway with Conrad Murray facing charges of involuntary manslaughter.
• We saw Hollywood celebrities join protesters trying to curb "corporate greed" with the "Occupy Wall Street" movement in NYC, while organizers started solidarity campaigns in cities across the United States.
• We observed the Russian government in flux as the finance minister resigned in an open confrontation with President Medvedev, who announced he would swap roles in next year's elections with current Prime Minister and former President Vladimir Putin.
• We witnessed Typhoon Nesat pound the Philippines, killing at least 35 with another 45 missing, and then move on to produce dramatic flooding and destruction in China.
• We followed an "animated" Barack Obama, a "new" ad for Newt Gingrich, and 200,000 people who "like" Hermain Cain on the US campaign trail.
• We monitored the latest in the European economic crisis as Germany's parliament voted to increase the European bailout fund and Greece tried to convince the EU and IMF to release more emergency cash.
• We tracked the ongoing Arab Spring uprisings in Libya, where anti-Gadhafi forces made advances on the stronghold of Sirte, and in Syria, where the US ambassador's convoy was pelted with stones as security forces continued to kill protesters.
• And finally, we reflected on the life and achievements of the first African woman Nobel Peace Prize laureate, environmentalist Wangari Maathai, who died at the age of 71.