This Week's Top News Stories on YouTube-- Mitt Romney claims victory in New Hampshire, award-winning French journalist is killed in Syria, and a national strike paralyses Nigeria

Everyday on the CitizenTube Channel (and @CitizenTube on Twitter), along with our curation partners @storyful, we look at how the top news stories are covered on YouTube. Every week we'll post a weekly recap of the top news stories of the week:

• We were saddened as award-winning French journalist Gilles Jacquier was killed during attacks on a pro-government rally in Homs, Syria.
• We watched strong condemnation worldwide as video emerged of four US marines urinating on Taliban corpses.
• We monitored events in Syria as eleven Arab League observers were injured in an attack on one of their cars in Latakia.
• We marked Guantanamo Bay's tenth year of operation, a period Amnesty is calling "a decade of damage to human rights".
• We followed the GOP candidates on the US campaign trail, as Mitt Romney took New Hampshire and looked ahead to South Carolina. 
• We saw more than ten feet of snow falling on parts of Alaska, especially around the town of Cordova.
• We viewed a national strike in Nigeria bringing the country to a standstill as thousands continued to protest the scrapping of the fuel subsidy
• We witnessed a surfer's paradise develop in California as massive waves hit beaches all along the coast.
• And finally, we watched South Africa celebrate one hundred years since the forming of the African National Congress.