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Added on the 11/01/2023 03:46:42 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Mourners attend a mass for the victims of a roof collapse at a church in northeastern Mexico that left 11 people dead and another dozen injured. The tragedy struck the coastal town of Ciudad Madero, in Tamaulipas state, when about 70 people were attending a baptism at the Santa Cruz Catholic Church, according to officials. IMAGES
Holding rainbow flags and chanting, people demonstrate against the late cardinal George Pell in Sydney outside St Mary’s Cathedral where thousands attended his funeral service. Pell, a Vatican powerbroker who rose from humble beginnings in small town Australia, died in Rome in January, aged 81. IMAGES
Expressing solidarity with American protesters over the death of George Floyd, people in France take part in a peaceful kneel-in outside the US embassy in Paris, holding signs which read "Racism suffocates us" and "I can't breathe". IMAGES
Protesters march in Boston, taking a stand against racism. The shocking videotaped death last Monday of an unarmed black man, George Floyd, at the hands of police in Minneapolis ignited the nationwide wave of outrage over law enforcement's repeated use of lethal force against unarmed African Americans. IMAGES
Convicted paedophile cardinal George Pell has an appeal against his child sex abuse charges rejected by an Australian court. Once the Vatican's third-ranking official, 78-year-old Pell was sentenced this year to six years in jail for sexually assaulting two 13-year-old choirboys at a Melbourne cathedral in the 1990s. SOUNDBITE