KABUL, Afghanistan

Over 2,000 artifacts were returned to their original home in Afghanistan this week, after being smuggled into Britain during the recent years of war. The pieces were displayed for the first time in Afghanistan’s National Museum. According to the New York Times, “the items from Britain are not the first to be returned. About 13,000 artifacts have come back to Afghanistan from Norway, Denmark, Switzerland and the United States since the Taliban fell in 2001.” The pieces on display include centuries-old pottery, tools and weapons.

CUMANAK, Indonesia

Approximately 100 people died last Wednesday when a 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck, according to the AFP. Muchtar, a sixty-two-year old farmer, was one of the few survivers and has been asked to identify many of the bodies that were found in the wake of the natural disaster. “I’m too traumatized. I can’t do it anymore,” said Muchtar, who had lost sixteen of his twenty-one extended family members in the village. “Families keep asking me, but I’m too scared. I can’t help.” In the area surrounding this village, an estimated 400 people were killed, though the actual body count may never be known.

CARACAS, Venezuela

Hit U.S. cartoon series, Family Guy, was banned, according to GlobalPost.com. The Venezuelan government highlighted a clip in which Brian Griffin (the dog) and Stewie (the baby) sing a song about legalizing marijuana. The government used this as an example of how the U.S. government promotes pot smoking and legalizing drugs. “There’s no subliminal messages here,” said Tarek El Assaimi, Interior and Justice Minister for the government. He blamed U.S. drug consumption for fueling Venezuela’s drug trafficking marketand suggested that Family Guy demonstrated the U.S.’s tolerance toward drug use.