ISRAEL
An ultra-Orthodox Jew stabbed six people at the Gay Pride parade in Jerusalem. The man had been released from prison three weeks ago, after serving a 12 year sentence for stabbing three people at the parade in 2005.
CHINA
“A Chinese spiritualist who acts as a mentor to some of his nation’s top politicians and celebrities has been arrested on suspicion of kidnapping and murdering a disgruntled client.”
NEPAL
“A Nepalese man has confessed to the murder of a young boy after saying a local holy man advised him that a human sacrifice would heal his ailing son.”
SWITZERLAND
Dutee Chand, the sprinter banned from competing against women in 2014 because her natural levels of testosterone exceeded guidelines for female athletes, has won the right to compete. The Court of Arbitration for Sport gave the organization that banned her two years to provide more persuasive scientific evidence linking “enhanced testosterone levels and improved athletic performance.”
ITALY
“A priest has performed an exorcism from a helicopter to banish evil from an Italian seaside town said to be beset with social and moral decay.
MALI
“Thousands of people in Mali’s capital, Bamako, are flocking to see what it believed to a religious sign on a wall that suddenly appeared last weekend. Many believe the white image on the outside wall of a toilet shows a man praying, interpreting it as a message from God.”
ZIMBABWE/UK/LION HEAVEN?
An animal psychic claims she has spoken to Cecil the lion following his killing at the hands of a US tourist in Zimbabwe.”
KENYA
The Catholic Church is protesting a polio vaccination campaign on claims that it was laced with a hormone said to cause infertility in women.
Featured image: Stain on toilet wall in Mali.