BAGHDAD — Victory celebrations at a soccer match in Iraq ended abruptly when a fan accidentally shot the winning goalie to death, the police in Babil Province said Monday.

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During celebrations, an off-duty police officer started firing his service pistol into the air but lost control of it, the police said.

via Iraqi Goalie Killed in Victory Shooting .

Benedict said that the Roman Catholic Church is in the forefront of the battle against AIDS.

”You can’t resolve it with the distribution of condoms,” the pope told reporters aboard the Alitalia plane headed to Yaounde. ”On the contrary, it increases the problem.”

(my emphasis)

via Pope Says Condoms Make AIDS Problem Worse .

It seemed like a good idea at the time: Remove all the feral cats from a famous Australian island to save the native seabirds.

But the decision to eradicate the felines from Macquarie island allowed the rabbit population to explode and, in turn, destroy much of its fragile vegetation that birds depend on for cover, researchers said Tuesday.

Removing cats to protect birds backfires on island.