Unclaimed bodies found decaying in an outdoor shed have been buried alongside others in a mass grave in Papua New Guinea’s capital, Port Moresby. The burial took place after a viral social media video appeared to show excess bodies from the Port Moresby General Hospital morgue in the shed. Of the 92 bodies buried – not all found in the shed – 40 of them were children. The hospital said the government had allocated additional funding to the mortuary for 2023. The viral video showed at least 10 bodies, wrapped in blankets, on bunks and in hospital beds in an outdoor shed. It is currently the wet season in Papua New Guinea, with temperatures hovering around the high 20 to mid-30C. Although the mortuary is based at the hospital, the local government authority, the National Capital District Commission, is responsible for it. The morgue has struggled to keep up with demand for space as the population of Port Moresby has grown.(BBC)…[+]

The Anglican Church and United Kingdom have expressed “dismay” at an attack on a historic cemetery close to Jerusalem’s walled Old City. More than 30 graves at the Protestant Cemetery on Mount Zion were desecrated on Sunday. Crosses were broken and headstones toppled and smashed. Jewish extremists have been blamed for the vandalism. “We have noticed that hatred speech and hatred crimes are on the rise,” Anglican Archbishop Hosam Naoum said. Standing next to the vandalised grave of the second Anglican bishop of Jerusalem, Samuel Gobat, he said there had been a recent increase in spitting at Christians and attacks on their holy sites. “This is only an indication that we are not in a place where people can tolerate each other or accept each other,” Archbishop Naoum added. “We see more exclusion, more segregation and that is what really grieves us in this city of Jerusalem.”(BBC)…[+]

US actor Jeremy Renner has thanked fans for their support after he was seriously injured by his snow plough. Sharing a picture of his bruised face on Instagram, Renner said he was “too messed up now to type”. The Avengers star was airlifted to hospital on Sunday after the accident outside his home in Reno, Nevada. Renner was run over by his own snow plough, which weighs at least 14,330lb (6.5 tonnes) – three times as heavy as a car – the local sheriff said. He suffered blunt chest trauma and orthopaedic injuries, his publicist said on Monday. At that time he was in a stable but critical condition in intensive care. In an Instagram post from his hospital bed on Tuesday evening, Renner, 51, wrote: “Thank you all for your kind words. I’m too messed up now to type. But I send love to you all.”(BBC)…[+]