World
NEW ZEALAND
CEO buys struggling media company for $1
WELLINGTON — One of New Zealand’s largest media organizations will be sold for a single dollar to its chief executive, the owners announced Monday.
The organization Stuff prints many of the nation’s daily newspapers and runs a popular news website of the same name. It employs about 900 staff, including 400 journalists.
RUSSIA
Alligator rumored to have been Hitler’s dies
MOSCOW — An alligator that many people believe once belonged to Adolf Hitler has died in the Moscow Zoo.
The zoo said the alligator, named Saturn, was about 84 years old when he died on Friday.
MEXICO
Inmates kill 6 others at women’s prison
MEXICO CITY — A group of inmates at a women’s prison in Honduras used a fire to distract prison officials and murdered six other prisoners, authorities said Sunday.
The National Penitentiary Institute said in a statement that the incident began about 11 p.m. Saturday when an inmate set fire to an area at the prison north of Tegucigalpa where two newly encarcerated women were undergoing a 14-day quarantine for the new coronavirus.