Whitney Houston tributes, Athens burns, Syria protests continue - News of the Week

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. Each week we post a weekly recap of the top news stories of the week, as seen through the lens of both citizen-reported footage and professional news coverage.

• We paid tribute to the late Whitney Houston by compiling some of her all time classic performances.
• We observed Syrian towns such as Daraa, Homs and Hama receive heavy bombardment as fighting between military forces and rebels continued.
• We were saddened to hear of the death of New York Times Foreign Correspondent Anthony Shadid, who died this week while working in Syria.
• We saw parts of Athens burn as protests over austerity measures in Greece turned violent.
• We followed Mitt Romney as he got his campaign back on track by winning both the CPAC straw poll and the Maine caucuses.
• We witnessed anger in Israel as two of the country's envoys in India and Turkey were attacked with bombs.
• We viewed mourning in Honduras after a large fire claimed the lives of hundreds of inmates in a prison there.
• We saw North Korea hold extravagant celebrations to celebrate the 70th birthday of their late leader Kim Jong-il.
• We watched Bahrain police use tear gas to disperse large crowds marching towards a historic landmark.
• We monitored the progress of Madagascar-bound Cyclone Giovanni with the help of a schoolboy reporter named John.
• Finally, we gave into 'Linsanity' as NBA star Jeremy Lin's popularity exploded worldwide after he hit a last-second 3-pointer to win a game for the New York Knicks.

Come back next week to see the news unfold on YouTube.