Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Tuesday, June 1, signed a law prohibiting transgender women and girls from competing in girls and women's sports at public schools in his southern US state.
A teacher who taught controversial sex education classes that included cartoon videos on masturbation for first graders at the prestigious Dalton School in New York has resigned.
A chief in Zimbabwe has ordered the exhumation and reburial of Robert Mugabe's remains at the national heroes' shrine in Harare after accusing the late leader's wife of breaking local custom by burying him at his rural home in 2019.
A teenager had a crayfish removed from his bum and he claims he put it there to preserve it. The 14-year-old boy in China, named Xiaoying, said he thought inserting the crayfish into his body would turn it into "dried lobster".
A federal grand jury has indicted Derek Chauvin and three other former Minneapolis police officers on charges of violating George Floyd's civil rights during the arrest that led to his death last year.
South Africa's Department of Home Affairs has proposed a new law that will allow women to marry more than one husband, in the same way, that polygamous men are allowed to marry more than one wife.
A top lung surgeon who came out of retirement to fight the pandemic has set himself on fire after feeling guilty for giving Covid to his entire family, according to reports.
Sasha Johnson, a prominent British Black Lives Matter activist is in critical condition in hospital after being shot in the head in London, her political party says.