Charges of Using a Weapon of Mass Destruction have been filed against the surviving brother, Dhokhar Tsarnaev, that aided in carrying out the bombing attack in Boston during the annual marathon last week.
An Afghan-owned civilian helicopter was forced to make an emergency landing in a militant-controlled area of Afghanistan on Sunday due to bad weather about 18.5 miles from the Pakistani border.
An earthquake measuring 6.6 magnitude struck China's Sichuan province on Saturday, killing more than 150 and injuring more than 3,000.
Another large earthquake has struck Asia, this time off of the eastern coast of that continent.