PRI's The World Jul 3, 2013

Children who grow up in Britain's community of traveling fairground or carnival workers don't normally have access to the best schools, let alone go on to graduate with a prestigious history degree from Cambridge University. But that is what Zoah Hedges-Stocks has done. The 23-year-old tells anchor Marco Werman what it's like to be the first member of her itinerant community to earn such a degree from Cambridge.

Anchor Marco Werman talks about the photo of Pakistani girl Malala Yousufzai, and her friend Shazia Ramzan that seemed to capture a sort of quiet power. Yousafzai is the teenage Pakistani education activist shot in the head by the Taliban last year.

The answer to today's Geo Quiz is a historic Civil War battle that was raging on this day in 1863. Kyle Wichtendahl with the National Museum of Civil War Medicine tells The World that the Union Army tested out medical ideas on the battlefield that spread internationally and laid the groundwork for modern combat medicine.

This summer, France is rolling out a campaign called "Do You Speak Touriste?" to teach hoteliers, taxi drivers and anyone in the tourist trade, how to be nice to foreigners.

Bolivia accuses European states of "aggression" after its presidential plane was apparently forced to land and searched for Edward Snowden.

'Buried Secrets' is the title of a story in the current issue of the New Yorker. It's about Guinea, in West Africa, It is among the poorest countries in the world, but also sits atop one of the largest known deposits of untapped iron ore.

Public hearings are under way in The Hague as Australia and Japan take their fight over whaling to the International Court of Justice.

Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Samer Shehata, author of an upcoming book about the Muslim Brotherhood, about what lies ahead for the movement now.

Egypt's army commander has declared that the chief justice will temporarily take over presidential powers and the constitution will be suspended.

When Wendy Lovett – a math teacher from the UK – arrived at the Centre of Science and Technology (COSAT) two years ago, she looked at the white walls in her new classroom and knew something had to change.