A light aircraft crashed and burst into flames in Kathmundu after hitting a bird on take-off killing all 19 people on board, including British and Chinese passengers. Lily Grimes reports.

Unprecedented since the Holy See became a Sovereign state in 1929, the trial of Pope Benedict XVI's former butler and a Vatican computer technician for leaking secret papers starts on Saturday. 

"60 Minutes" correspondent Lara Logan talks to Gen. John Allen, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, about the insider attacks that have struck the military in recent weeks.

The prosperous northern Indian state of Punjab is in the grip of a worsening drug abuse crisis. It’s estimated more than half of all rural households are home to at least one drug addict, a problem most acute along the border with Pakistan.