Pick of the week

11 November - 17 November

BBC News Online presents a round-up of some of the week's more remarkable stories covered by BBC correspondents.

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The Vietnam War's sad legacy

Vietnamese workers dig for any remains from an American fighter plane that crashed 35 years ago.

A quarter of a century after the end of the Vietnam War, almost 1,500 US servicemen are still described as "missing in action ". As President Clinton makes an historic visit to Vietnam, America continues to pour money into trying to establish their fate.

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Further blow for Peru's president

Peru's ex-spy chief Vladimiro Montesinos toasts Alberto Fujimori's election victory with military leaders.

The opposition in Peru has increased the pressure on President Alberto Fujimori by dismissing his ally at the head of Congress. The opposition has also released a new video showing his disgraced former intelligence chief congratulating the army for interfering in politics.

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France and UK sued over CJD

A French vet stands in an empty cowshed after its herd was found to have BSE and was slaughtered.

Relatives of two French victims of the human form of "mad cow disease", or BSE, are suing the French and British governments and the European Commission. A lawyer, acting jointly for a teenager suffering from new-variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease and a 36-year-old man who died from the disease last February, has filed a suit in a Paris civil court.

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US election wrangle reaches critical point

A Republican observer looks at a ballot during a manual vote recount in Florida.

The wrangling over the US presidential election continues but the critical point is being reached. A Florida judge is preparing to rule on whether recounted ballots should be included in the official declaration of who has won the state - and therefore the White House.

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Bodies recovered after ski train fire

Flowers lie next to the entrance of a service tunnel at the Kitzsteinhorn mountain tunnel in Kaprun.

The last bodies have been recovered from the site of the Austrian ski train fire, the country's worst-ever peacetime disaster. A total of 155 bodies have been pulled from the charred remains of the mountain train, which was destroyed in a tunnel inferno near the ski resort of Kaprun.

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