MEXICO: Footage posted online of a Salvadoran woman dying in police custody has caused outrage.

Victoria Esperanza Salazar let out a scream on Saturday as a female police officer knelt on her back while trying to cuff her. 

Later, three other officers are seen standing around her motionless body, chatting.

They then lift her still handcuffed body into the back of a police truck and drive away.

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has described her death as murder.

POLAND: The Vatican said yesterday that it is punishing a retired archbishop and a bishop for covering up sexual abuse committed by other clergymen.

Former Gdansk archbishop Slawoj Leszek Glodz and former bishop Edward Janiak of Kalisz have also been forbidden from living in their former dioceses or participating in any public religious celebrations there.

The Vatican said each of the two is being required to contribute personal money into a fund helping victims of clerical abuse.

COVID-19: A joint World Health Organisation-China study on the origins of the pandemic says that transmission of the virus from bats to humans through another animal is the most likely scenario.

The findings offer little new insight into how the virus first emerged and leave many questions unanswered.

The team proposed further research in every area except the lab-leak hypothesis — a speculative theory promoted by former US president Donald Trump among others.

KASHMIR: Gunmen killed an official of India’s ruling party and a policeman at a council meeting in the north-western town of Sopore yesterday, police said.

None of the rebel groups that have been fighting against Indian rule since 1989 immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.