The Haitian community at Boston University continues to face communication difficulties with family at home after a record 7.0 magnitude earthquake rocked Port-au-Prince, Haiti Tuesday afternoon, destroying much of the city and possibly leaving hundreds of thousands dead.

A Boston University student abroad in London suffered non-life threatening injuries after falling from a dormitory window Wednesday night, BU London Program officials said.

Iran's June 12 election results that drew countless protests from disillusioned voters was a defining moment for a troubled nation, Boston College professor Ali Banuazizi told about 20 attendees Thursday at Harvard University's first Middle East seminar this semester.

A Boston University humanities professor was knighted last week for services in scholarship in the Queen's Birthday Honours.
Christopher Ricks, former University of Oxford professor of poetry, will be going to Buckingham Palace sometime in the next six months for the official ceremony, Cabinet Office spokesman Alex Marklew said.
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Christina Lau, a Boston University student studying abroad in Italy, said she was sitting in her living room studying when she felt the couch move and saw her water bottle fall over on Sunday. She said the tremor from the earthquake only lasted approximately 10 seconds.