Jun 05 Celebrating the Queen's Diamond Jubilee By Larisa Epatko For four days in early June, it was all about the queen and a sense of nationalism as the UK celebrated only its second Diamond Jubilee of a monarch. Continue reading
Jun 04 Watch Britons Go All Out for Queen Elizabeth's Jubilee Britain's Queen Elizabeth II is only the second monarch to mark 60 years on the throne. Jubilee celebrations began Saturday with a royal visit to the Epsom Racecourse in South London and wrap up Tuesday. Tim Ewart and Andy Davies… Continue watching
Jun 04 Watch News Wrap: Suicide Car Bomb Kills at Least 23 in Baghdad In other news Monday, a suicide car bomb in central Baghdad killed at least 23 people -- detonating right outside the main Shiite religious affairs office in Iraq. Nearly 200 people were wounded in the explosion. Also, officials in Pakistan… Continue watching
Jun 04 Watch In Egypt, a Volatile Reaction to Mubarak's Sentence, Associates' Acquittals In Egypt, a Volatile Reaction to Mubarak's Sentence, Associates' Acquittals… Continue watching
Jun 04 Panetta, Vietnam Exchange Soldiers' Writings More Than 40 Years Old Photo of two women found inside the Vietnamese soldier's diary. All images provided by PBS' History Detectives. Unveiling pieces of history Monday, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and Vietnam's Defense Minister General Thanh exchanged letters and a diary… Continue reading
Jun 04 Londoners Push Austerity, Poor Weather Aside for Diamond Jubilee A June 1953 coronation portrait of Queen Elizabeth II with her husband Prince Philip, duke of Edinburgh. Photo courtesy of the Library and Archives of Canada.LONDON -- Reminiscent of the morning of her coronation 59 years ago, the celebration… Continue reading
Jun 04 POTUS and QEII: How Many Presidents Has Queen Elizabeth Met? By Larisa Epatko Britain's Queen Elizabeth II celebrates 60 years on the throne this week, a reign that has covered 12 U.S. presidents. Continue reading
Jun 04 Queen Elizabeth and U.S. Presidents Over the Decades By Larisa Epatko Over her 60-year reign, Queen Elizabeth II has been photographed with nearly a dozen U.S. presidents at galas, giving tours and simply enjoying life on horseback. Continue reading
Jun 02 Russians Open to Assad Leaving Power in Syria, Analyst Says This week's horrific violence in Syria may have nudged Russia a little bit closer to opposing the Bashar al-Assad regime's continued claim to power there, according to analysts who have recently visited Russia. Last week's massacre in Houla,… Continue reading
Jun 01 Watch In Louisiana, Rising Seas Threaten Native Americans' Land Native Americans' tribal lands along the Louisiana coast are washing away as sea levels rise and marshes sink. Part of our Coping with Climate Change series, Hari Sreenivasan reports from Isle de Jean Charles, a community that is slowly disappearing… Continue watching