Hundreds are unaccounted for in the immigrant shipwreck off an Italian island – A military leader who outfought and outlasted two superpowers is dead – And the sun sets on Silvio.

Rough seas are forcing divers to delay the search for more than 200 immigrants still missing from the capsized ship off Italy’s Lampedusa Island in the Mediterranean.  The immigrants from eastern Africa were trying to reach the island and claim asylum.  111 bodies have been brought ashore, overwhelming locals’ capacity to deal with it and using up all available coffins.  150 people survived the disaster.

An Italian senate panel is recommending the expulsion of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi from Parliament, because of his criminal convictions for tax fraud and using a child prostitute.  The conservative media magnate, who dominated Italian politics for two decades, could face the music as quickly as within three weeks.  Berlusconi threatened to sink the government to stop his ouster, but his own ministers turned on him.

Four people have been killed in rioting in Mombasa, Kenya, following the killing of a Muslim cleric.  Shiek Ibrahim “Rogo” Omar was believed to have had ties to al Shabab, the terrorist group that staged a deadly attack on an upscale mall in Nairobi two weeks ago.  Some Muslims accuse Kenyan security forces of assassinating Omar, which they deny.

Three days of freedom.  Former prisoner Herman Wallace died 3 days after being released from one of America’s most notoriously brutal prisons in Louisiana, where he served more than 40 years in solitary confinement.  A judge this week ruled Wallace did not receive a fair trial for killing a guard in the 1970s.  He developed liver cancer in solitary, and was only a few days from his 72nd birthday.

Vietnamese General Vo Nguyen Giap who drove both France and the United States from his land died at age 102.  His campaign sapped the will-to-fight and finances of his much wealthier, better trained, and better equipped enemies.  The General remained influential in Vietnamese politics after the war, supporting closer relations with the United States while publicly warning of the spread of Chinese influence and the environmental costs of industrialization.

A US federal judge is ordering the release of a Guantanamo Bay prisoner suffering from severe mental illness.  Ibrahim Idris is a native of Sudan, suffers from schizophrenia, and has spent much of his time at a psychiatric ward on the US naval base since he arrived more than 11 years ago.  He was captured near the Pakistan-Afghan border in 2001 and dumped in Gitmo in 2002.

A man emptied the contents of a red gasoline can on himself and set himself ablaze on the National Mall outside the United States Congress (Warning, gruesome video).  He reportedly suffered burns to 80 percent of his body, and was airlifted to hospital.  Police are investigating but so far have no idea why he did it.

Colombia’s FARC rebel group reports modest progress in negotiations with the government to end its 50-year-old insurgency.  Talks are taking place in Cuba, and aren’t just centering on disarmament and implementation; there’s real change in the works, including land reform and dealing with the illicit drug gangs on the table.  But it’s got to be done, because five decades of armed struggle in Colombia have killed 220,000 people.