May 12 Vienna installs gay-themed crosswalk signals ahead of Eurovision song contest By Joshua Barajas In preparation for the Eurovision Song Contest, Vienna has outfitted its traffic lights throughout the city with figures of same-sex couples, replacing the single, gender-neutral figures typically seen at pedestrian crossings. Continue reading
May 12 Another powerful earthquake hits Nepal, kills dozens By News Desk A magnitude 7.3 earthquake that shook Nepal early this morning killed dozens of people, triggered landslides in the Himalayas near Mount Everest and brought down buildings already weakened by last month's devastating tremblor. Continue reading
May 11 Watch 8:44 Can Denmark solve its Islamic extremist problem? By PBS News Hour Denmark, like other European nations, is struggling to stop its citizens from joining the Islamic State group and other terrorist organizations in Syria. Special correspondent Malcolm Brabant reports from Copenhagen on the story of a young man who left his… Continue watching
May 11 Watch 3:30 Why did Saudi King Salman pull out of Camp David talks? By PBS News Hour Saudi Arabia's King Salman and the King of Bahrain won’t be attending President Obama’s summit of the Gulf Cooperation Council at Camp David, instead sending officials in their place.The State Department denied it's a snub, triggered by concerns about the… Continue watching
May 11 Watch 8:00 How Ebola can hide in the bodies of survivors By PBS News Hour Liberia was declared Ebola-free this weekend, marking a major milestone in the fight against the epidemic in West Africa, where it killed more than 10,000. But for survivors, the disease can still wreak serious after-effects. Judy Woodruff learns more about… Continue watching
May 11 Watch 3:29 Yemen clashes intensify ahead of humanitarian cease-fire By PBS News Hour Fighting raged across Yemen in the hours before a five-day humanitarian cease-fire was set to begin between the Saudi-led coalition and the Houthi rebels, who have some backing from Iran. Meanwhile, conditions for civilians in Sanaa and Aden grew ever… Continue watching
May 11 White House calls Seymour Hersh's bin Laden article 'outright falsehoods' By Associated Press The White House is dismissing as untrue an article alleging that President Barack Obama misled the public about how the U.S. killed Osama bin Laden. Continue reading
May 10 Watch 25:17 PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode May 10, 2015 By PBS News Hour On this edition for Sunday, May 10, 2015, China takes new steps to reinvigorate its increasingly sluggish economy, the Illinois Supreme Court strikes down a plan to rescue the state's indebted prison system, and in our signature segment, a South… Continue watching
May 10 Watch 4:14 Avalanches, poor weather roil search and rescue missions in Nepal By PBS News Hour Rescuers in Nepal called off their search for missing hikers due to avalanches and poor weather this weekend, even as the death toll from the last month's earthquake surpasses 8,000. Pamela Constable of the Washington Post joins Hari Sreenivasan from… Continue watching
May 10 Gulf nation leaders look to Obama for reassurance of fears over Iran By Deb Riechmann, Associated Press Leaders of Gulf nations unnerved by Washington's nuclear talks with Iran and Tehran's meddling across the Mideast look to President Barack Obama to promise more than words and weapons at Thursday's Camp David summit. Continue reading