RENEE FLEMING

This week’s new entertainment releases include documentaries about celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck and another on a landmark 1969 Harlem concert series known as “Black Woodstock” that featured Nina Simone, Stevie Wonder, Sly and the Family Stone.

This week’s new entertainment releases include the return of Angelina Jolie in the thriller “Those Who Wish Me Dead” as a Montana smoke jumper who comes across a 12-year-old boy in need of help.

Sputnik Light is the fourth domestically developed COVID-19 vaccine approved in Russia. The only condition will be that people travel at least two weeks after they received the second shot of a coronavirus vaccine. ___STOCKHOLM -- Sweden has passed the threshold of one million coronavirus cases or 10 percent of its population. It has so far received 4.56 million doses, including AstraZeneca shots produced by local company SK Bioscience. Indonesia has confirmed more than 1.6 million cases and 46,000 deaths from COVID-19, the largest totals in Southeast Asia.

Vatican Health FILE - In this April 13, 2021 file photo, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks during a press briefing at the White House, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, file) (Patrick Semansky)ROME — (AP) — An eclectic mix of participants are taking part in a unique three-day Vatican conference on COVID-19, other global health threats and how science, solidarity and spirituality can address them. Along with Pope Francis, the event includes Dr. Anthony Fauci, soprano Renee Fleming, the CEOs of Pfizer and Moderna and the lead guitarist of Aerosmith. The conference, which begins Thursday and ends Saturday with a virtual audience with the pope, was planned well before the pandemic erupted last year. The conference, which features prominent U.S. journalists as moderators and academics in a variety of fields, also has a religious component.

The Vatican is opening a unique three-day health conference featuring a star-studded lineup: Dr. Anthony Fauci, who is leading the U.S. coronavirus response, will speak alongside soprano Renee Fleming, the CEOs of Pfizer and Moderna and the lead guitarist of Aerosmith.