Global roundup: Lost Wharton story surfaces, sherpa survives Everest, Russia eyes child labor

At least 49 people died of thirst after a truck broke down in Niger's Sahara Desert; a Sherpa guide survived six days on Mount Everest after being presumed dead; four people injured by escaped bear in Japan; Crown Princess of Norway faces life-threatening lung condition requiring transplant.

In a single week's turning, the world offered up its contradictions whole: lost masterworks returning to light while living people perished of thirst in the Sahara; a man presumed dead on Everest crawling back to the living while governments worked to erase the memory of the dead from public consciousness. From Vienna auction houses to Niger desert graves, from Himalayan slopes to North Korean diplomatic corridors, the week reminded us that history is never finished being written — and that the forces shaping what gets remembered, and who survives, are rarely as random as they appear.

Global roundup: Lost Wharton story surfaces, sherpa survives Everest, Russia eyes child labor

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