Global Week in Review: Plane Passenger Dies of Ebola, Possibly Spreads Virus

Plus, pilots on Air Algerie flight asked to turn back.

Health Experts Tracing Spreading of Ebola - Pilots in crashed Air Algerie flight asked to turn back, plus more global news. – Natelege Whaley (@Natelege_)Patrick Sawyer, a Liberian Finance Ministry employee who contracted Ebola and boarded a flight in Liberia and stopped in Ghana and Togo before reaching Nigeria, died Friday, according to the Associated Press. World Health Organization workers are scrambling to find out if others came into close contact with the man while he was traveling. Sawyer’s sister had succumbed to the illness.  (Photo: AP Photo/ Youssouf Bah)

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Health Experts Tracing Spreading of Ebola - Pilots in crashed Air Algerie flight asked to turn back, plus more global news. – Natelege Whaley (@Natelege_)Patrick Sawyer, a Liberian Finance Ministry employee who contracted Ebola and boarded a flight in Liberia and stopped in Ghana and Togo before reaching Nigeria, died Friday, according to the Associated Press. World Health Organization workers are scrambling to find out if others came into close contact with the man while he was traveling. Sawyer’s sister had succumbed to the illness.  (Photo: AP Photo/ Youssouf Bah)

Air Algerie Pilots Asked to Turn Back Before Fatal Crash - Pilots on the fatal Air Algerie Flight AH5017 asked to turn back, French officials report. "What we know for sure is that the weather was bad that night, that the plane crew had asked to change route then to turn back before all contact was lost," Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said, according to SBS. The Black boxes from Air Algerie arrived in France to be investigated by authorities Monday. In the coming days, 118 bodies of the passengers who died in the plane crash will be brought to France to be identified.  (Photo: AP Photo/Francois Mori)

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Air Algerie Pilots Asked to Turn Back Before Fatal Crash - Pilots on the fatal Air Algerie Flight AH5017 asked to turn back, French officials report. "What we know for sure is that the weather was bad that night, that the plane crew had asked to change route then to turn back before all contact was lost," Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said, according to SBS. The Black boxes from Air Algerie arrived in France to be investigated by authorities Monday. In the coming days, 118 bodies of the passengers who died in the plane crash will be brought to France to be identified.  (Photo: AP Photo/Francois Mori)

Rain, Aid Prevents Famine South Sudan - South Sudan may face a famine in early 2015, but food aid and normal rainfall has prevented it from coming sooner. The development ministry said that food security is expected to improve through the end of 2014. (Photo: Matthew Abbott/AP Photo)

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50,000 Children Expected to Die from Famine in South Sudan - Conflict in South Sudan continues to put children in the country at further risk of malnutrition. Young children are especially at risk of suffering, as an estimated one million under the age of five will need treatment during the famine in 2014, according to an UNICEF blog.  (Photo: AP Photo/ Matthew Abbott)

President Barack Obama - @BarackObama: "President Obama remembers Nelson Mandela: 'A man who took history in his hands and bent the arc of the moral universe towards justice.'"(AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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Young African Leaders Program Named After Mandela - President Obama has changed the name of the Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders Program to that of Former South African President Nelson Mandela, the White House announced Monday. The fellowship brings young African leaders to study business and entrepreneurship, civic engagement and public administration in the U.S. and further their skills and network.  (Photo: AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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Boko Haram Kidnaps Cameroon Official - An attack by Boko Haram militants in Kolofata, Cameroon, has resulted in three people dead and the kidnapping of Amadou Ali, the wife of Cameroon’s vice prime minister at his home, Al Jazeera reports. Seini Boukar Lamine was also kidnapped in a different attack.  (Photo: AP Photo)

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Egypt Elections Announced As Death Toll Rises - As the estimated death toll totaled 51 in Egypt, interim President Adly Mansour announced plans to overhaul Egypt's Constitution and hold parliamentary and presidential elections in the next six months. He also named the country’s new prime minister and vice president. (Photo: AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

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Egypt Charges in Terrorist Attacks - Twenty militants belonging to the terrorist group Ajnad Misr are being charged with killing seven people and injuring 100 others in terrorist attacks last July after President Mohammed Morsi was ousted. The group allegedly placed bombs near security checkpoints, according to the Associated Press.  (Photo: AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Israel Signals No Quick End to Gaza Conflict - There is no clear ending to the Gaza War in sight. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said there will be more fighting. “Israeli citizens cannot live with the threat from rockets and from death tunnels — death from above and from below,” Netanyahu said during a television conference, the New York Times reports.  (Photo: AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

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Israel Signals No Quick End to Gaza Conflict - There is no clear ending to the Gaza War in sight. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said there will be more fighting. “Israeli citizens cannot live with the threat from rockets and from death tunnels — death from above and from below,” Netanyahu said during a television conference, the New York Times reports.  (Photo: AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)