Kathmandu, Nepal (CNN) -- Nepal's parliament on Sunday elected a leader of the former Maoist rebels as the new prime minister with a simple majority. 

Baburam Bhattarai, 57, vice-chairman of the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) will become the fourth prime minister since Nepal became a republic in 2008. 

After his election Bhattarai said he would attempt to complete the peace process and the long-delayed new constitution. 

Bhattarai received 340 votes in parliament, beating his rival Ram Chandra Poudel, 66, of the Nepali Congress, who received 235 votes. 

Bhattarai, who has a degree in architecture and a doctorate in regional planning, was able to get the crucial support of the regional Madhesi parties from southern Nepal. 

The 65 votes of the five parties of the Madhesi front were crucial for Bhattrai, whose party is the biggest in the 601-member parliament but lacks a majority. 

Media reports say the Madhesi parties have been promised 12 ministerial posts in exchange for their support. 

Bhattari is the second leader of the former rebels to become prime minister. 

The Maoists became the biggest party in the 2008 elections and their chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal was prime minister for nine months. He resigned in a dispute with the president, who reinstated an army chief Dahal had fired. 

Earlier this month Jhalanath Khanal resigned as prime minister after he was unable to persuade the former Maoist rebels to demobilize and reintegrate their fighters in a deal that was agreeable to the other political parties. 

The Maoists fought a ten-year insurgency from 1996 to 2006 in which about 16,000 people were killed.  What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Who will be the next prime minister of Nepal?
2. Does he have a doctorate?
3. In what?
4. Whose votes were important?
5. Are they the smallest party?
6. What group is Bhattarai a part of?
7. How many votes did he receive?
8. Who did he defeat?
9. How many votes did he receive?
10. Is he the first of his group to rule?
11. Who else?
12. For how long?
13. Who just quit the role?
14. Did Bhattarai's political group fight a war?
15. How long?
16. From when to when?
17. How many died?
18. What will the group who supported him receive?
19. When was the republic founded?
20. How many prime ministers will it have?
Answer: 1. Baburam Bhattarai
2. yes
3. regional planning
4. he five parties of the Madhesi front
5. no
6. the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)
7. 340 votes
8. Ram Chandra Poude
9. 235
10. no
11. Pushpa Kamal Dahal
12. nine months
13. Jhalanath Khanal
14. yes
15. ten-year
16. 1996 to 2006
17. about 16,000
18. 12 ministerial posts
19. 2008
20. Four

Problem: The latest chapter in Amanda Knox's long legal battle began Monday in Florence, Italy, with a retrial over the 2007 killing of her British roommate Meredith Kercher. 

But Knox, 26, who has expressed concern about returning to a country where she spent four years behind bars, was not in court. 

Neither was Kercher's family, which said in a statement submitted by their lawyer in court on Monday that they would be following the new trial closely from the United Kingdom. 

Knox was convicted in 2009 of murdering Kercher, a 21-year old British exchange student who was found stabbed to death in November 2007 in the villa the two young women rented in the central Italian university town of Perugia. 

Family: Amanda Knox won't return to Italy for new trial 

The convictions of Knox and her ex-boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, were overturned in 2011 for "lack of evidence." 

After her acquittal, Knox returned to her hometown of Seattle, where she has been living since. 

Knox: Sometimes, I can't stop crying 

But Italy's Supreme Court decided last year to retry the case, saying the jury that acquitted Knox didn't consider all the evidence, and that discrepancies in testimony needed to be answered. 

The retrial's opening day Monday was dominated by procedural items. The presiding judge, Alessandro Nencini, read out the facts of the case, including the conviction of Ivory Coast native Rudy Guede for his role in Kercher's murder. 

The defense teams asked for several items of evidence to be retested for DNA, and Nencini agreed that a knife found in Sollecito's apartment would be re-examined. The court also agreed to hear testimony from Luciano Aviello, who served time in jail with Sollecito and claims that his brother killed Kercher. 
1. Where did Knox's legal battle start?
2. what was she convicted of?
3. What is her home town?
4. When was she convicted?
5. Is she in prison now?
6. Why not?
7. Why did that happen?
8. When was Kercher found stabbed to death?
9. Will she be back in Italy for the retrial?
10. Why not?
Answer: 1. Italy
2. killing of her roommate
3. Seattle
4. 2009
5. No
6. The jury acquitted
7. They didn't consider all the evidence.
8. November 2007
9. No
10. Knox has expressed concern about returning.

question: For Urban Treuil, there's no escaping the misery. 

Because of Hurricane Isaac, Treuil's home in Braithwaite, Louisiana, is ruined by floodwaters. So, too, is the gas station and convenience store he owned and ran in the community, 15 miles by car and 10 miles as the crow flies from New Orleans. 

But all that pales to what Treuil, the fire chief for Braithwaite and Woodlawn in Plaquemines Parish, saw when he and fellow volunteer firefighters steered their boat up to the home of a couple he knew. Inside, they found the pair floating in the kitchen, the first of at least three fatalities in Louisiana being blamed on Isaac. 

"It's not something I want to see, and I hope it's the last ones we do see," said an exhausted Treuil on Friday, a day after he pulled the couple from the home. 

In terms of total deaths, Isaac doesn't compare to Hurricane Katrina, which led to nearly 1,800 fatalities in New Orleans and the vicinity seven years ago. Isaac struck Louisiana on Tuesday night as a Category 1 hurricane, not a Category 3 like Katrina. 

Don't tell that, though, to the thousands of residents in St. Tammany, Ascension, Plaquemines and other parishes who Friday found their homes and hometowns still deluged. Even with a few drops of drizzle falling all day and with levels down considerably from the previous day, waters were still 10 feet deep in spots. 

"This is unbelievable. Deja vu, man," Billy Nungesser, president of Plaquemines Parish said Thursday as he surveyed the town of Ironton, inundated by floodwater and sludge. "There is more water here than Katrina." 
1. Who is Urban Treuil?
2. Where does he live?
3. What happened there?
4. What category was it?
5. Is the same size as Katrina?
6. What was that one?
7. Is Braithwaite near New Orleans?
8. How close?
9. Did the town get flooded?
10. How deep did the water get?
11. Did other nearby towns get flooded too?
12. Which ones?
13. Were any businesses harmed?
14. Which ones?
15. Who owned those?
16. Were there fatalities?
17. How many?
18. Anyone Treuil knew?
19. How many?
20. Who found them?
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answer:
1. fire chief for Braithwaite and Woodlawn
2. Braithwaite, Louisiana,
3. Hurricane Isaac
4. Category 1
5. no
6. Three
7. yes
8. 15 miles by car
9. yes
10. 10 feet deep
11. yes
12. St. Tammany, Ascension, Plaquemines and other parishes
13. yes
14. Gas station and convenience store
15. Treuil
16. yes
17. Three
18. yes
19. Two
20. Treuil and fellow volunteer firefighters