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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (left) holds press conference with Secretary General of Arab League Amre M. Moussa

The U.S. military said Tuesday that an Air Force fighter jet crashed in Libya but was not shot down, as coalition forces bombarded the North African nation for a third straight night.

Final results of Saturday's historic referendum show that 77.2 percent of voters have backed constitutional changes in what was the freest vote in Egypt in more than half a century, but opponents say the result give an unfair advantage to Islamist-dominant entities such as the Muslim Brotherhood and the former ruling National Democratic Party.

"The California desert looks a lot like much of Iraq — which makes it an ideal training ground for military units about to deploy — and nothing like Cambridge. The former is a small town dominated by the massive Marine Corps base nearby and filled with a few thousand aggressive young men with clipped hair," said Sayce Falk, a former Marine and second-year graduate student at Harvard Kennedy School.

A man looks over at the empty pumps of a filling station near the town of Noda.

Libyan rebels celebrate in Benghazi on Thursday after the United Nations Security Council passed a resolution to impose a no-fly zone over Libya.

People rest on the floor at a evacuation center after the recent tsunami and earthquake in Natori, Miyagi prefecture, on Wednesday.

Police forces in Yemen have killed atleast six people, including a 15 year old student and injured many more, after they attacked anti- government protesters in the capital city Sanaa.

China's envoy to the Middle East, Wu Sike, has said that Beijing is not competing with Washington in exerting influence in the area, but is confident about its ties with the region.

This morning the Holy Father received members of the National Association of Italian Local Authorities.

In his address to them, the Pope highlighted how "the multiplicity of subjects and of situations is not incompatible with the unity of the nation, which is being reaffirmed by this 150th anniversary currently being celebrated. Unity and plurality are, at various levels including the ecclesial level, values which enrich one another, if the right reciprocal balance is maintained.