World Jun 18 Charlie Rose with Russia’s Vladimir Putin Russian President Vladimir Putin will speak at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, beginning at 7 a.m. EDT Friday. PBS host and CBS News anchor Charlie Rose will moderate the discussion, which PBS NewsHour will live stream.
World Jun 18 Refugees reached 60 million in 2014 as conflicts flared, U.N. says The number of people forced from their homes due to conflicts around the world jumped again last year, according to an annual U.N. report released Thursday.
Science Jun 17 This rockstar scientist wrote a song about her friends who died from Ebola In the world of science, Harvard geneticist Pardis Sabeti is a rock star. She also fronts a guitar-heavy alternative rock band from Boston.
Nation Jun 17 St. Louis Cardinals accused of hacking Houston Astros team secrets The FBI is investigating employees of the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team for allegedly hacking an internal computer network of the Houston Astros, called Ground Control, which held information about players, internal discussions about trades and scouting reports.
Nation Jun 11 Rupert Murdoch to step down as CEO of 21st Century Fox Australian American business magnate Rupert Murdoch is leaving his post as CEO of 21st Century Fox and turning over the mass media corporation to his son James, according to an announcement on Thursday.
Arts Jun 11 Jazz saxophonist and Pulitzer Prize winner Ornette Coleman dies at 85 American jazz musician and composer Ornette Coleman, whose ground-breaking saxophone playing earned him a Pulitzer Prize in 2007, died Thursday morning in Manhattan at age 85.
World Jun 06 Photos: Amazon River overflows into Brazil’s streets A branch of the Amazon River called the Rio Solimoes overflowed this week due to heavy rains and flooding, and rose high into the streets of Anama, in the Amazonas state of Brazil, according to Reuters.
Nation Jun 04 Men continue to outnumber women in the media, study says Men outnumber women in news anchor seats and bylines in print and online, according to a study released Thursday by the Women’s Media Center based in New York and Washington, D.C.
World Jun 04 Explosion in Ghana kills scores of people seeking shelter from rains An explosion at a gas station in Ghana’s capital Accra overnight killed more than 100 people, officials said Thursday.
World Jun 02 Rescuers try to pull people from sunken boat in China Rescue workers stood on the overturned hull of a cruise boat in China’s Yangtze River on Tuesday, hoping to extract more than 400 passengers still trapped underneath.