November 18, 2013 - 7:39AM 9 reading now A Boeing 737 belonging to a domestic Russian airline has crashed while attempting to land at an airport in western Tatarstan, killing all 50 people on board. CHICAGO - The US midwest is being battered by severe storms and tornadoes, with one powerful twister laying waste to Peoria, Illinois and others wreaking damage elsewhere in the region. ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan government has announced it will put former military ruler General Pervez Musharraf on trial for treason, punishable by death or life imprisonment, for imposing emergency rule in 2007. TRIPOLI - Libya's deputy intelligence chief Mustafa Nuh has been abducted in Tripoli, as the city began a three-day strike to mourn dozens killed in clashes at an anti-militia protest over the weekend. PARIS - A French engineer abducted by Islamist militants in Nigeria has outwitted his captors and managed to escape after nearly a year in captivity, officials say. BERLIN - Cornelius Gurlitt, a German recluse who hid hundreds of paintings believed looted by the Nazis in his Munich flat, says he is the rightful owner and will not give up the works without a fight, quashing hopes of a quick settlement. LONDON - British author Doris Lessing, whose powerful feminist and anti-colonial writing won her the Nobel Literature Prize, has died at the age of 94.