By Sean Gardiner and Alison Fox JUNE 15, 2011, 1:36 PM ET http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2011/06/15/harlem-teen-killed-after-argument/tab/print/ A 15-year-old Manhattan boy who had survived a shooting just seven months ago was shot and killed on a the sidewalk outside the Peaceful Valley community garden in East Harlem late Tuesday night. Family members said that Juan Otero was heading to a bodega across the street from their 117th Street home when he was shot three times in his right arm around 9:36 p.m. Tuesday night. A law enforcement official said that one of the bullets traveled through his right arm and into his stomach. He was pronounced dead at Metropolitan Hospital Center. A security camera…

By the CNN Wire Staff June 16, 2011 7:56 a.m. EDT http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/06/15/texas.giffords/index.html?hpt=hp_bn1 (CNN) — U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords has been released from the hospital in Houston, Texas, and expects to begin outpatient treatment soon, according to a statement released Wednesday by TIRR Memorial Hermann. Giffords was shot in the head January 8 during a mass shooting incident in Arizona. She is expected to move into her home in League City, Texas, where she will continue rehabilitation therapy. “We are very excited that she has reached the next phase of her rehabilitation and can begin outpatient treatment,” said Dr. Gerard Francisco, the hospital’s chief medical officer. Francisco will continue to supervise…

http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2011/06/14/another-delay-for-museum-of-african-art/ By Pia Catton The opening of the Museum for African Art’s new building has been delayed again. The museum, which will be located at Fifth Ave and 110th Street, will now open in late 2012 instead of the previously announced late 2011. The Museum for African Art decided to delay the final stage of construction in order to meet its fund-raising goal, according to a statement by museum president Elsie McCabe Thompson. Though the museum had raised $86.3 million, it has had to raise its fund-raising goal from $90 million to $95 million due to increased construction costs. Devoted to the art of Africa and the African Diaspora, the museum was…

EUROPE 22 March 2011 Last updated at 21:44 ET By Steven EkeEditor, BBC Russian Service At the end of this week, the BBC’s Russian Service will close its radio frequencies for good. The Russian Service began broadcasting to the Soviet Union in 1946 and quickly established a reputation with Soviet listeners, in the brief period before the onset of the Cold War. From 1949 until 1987, the jamming of the signal by the Soviet authorities consumed vast amounts of money and technical expertise. For many years, a significant part of the USSR’s entire radio broadcasting system was devoted to blocking transmissions from abroad. The BBC’s Russian Service was blocked selectively and varyingly.…

By Nick Neyland http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2011/06/10/a-trip-to-green-wood-cemetery-after-dark-without-dying-to-get-in/ JUNE 10, 2011, 1:08 PM ET Benjamin Norman for The Wall Street Journal Green-Wood Cemetery’s catacombs, which date back to the early 1850s, will be open to visitors during Saturday’s moonlight tour Green-Wood Cemetery has strict rules that keep visitors out after dark, but the historic burial ground will be crawling with the curious Saturday night for a rare moonlight tour. Cemetery historian Jeff Richman leads the tour, joined by accordionists hired to provide musical accompaniment.Visitors are encouraged to bring a flashlight to navigate the nearly 200-year-old cemetery’s winding pathways under a full moon. “People obviously like the idea of a cemetery in the dark,” Richman…