Nepali shamans performing a superstitious ritual in a village on the outskirts of the capital, Kathmandu. Nepal police have arrested eleven villagers in connection with the murder of a 10-year-old child based on superstitious beliefs. Local media reports said on Sunday that a suspected father of a sick teenager slit the throat of a boy named, Jeevan Kohar, in a village in Nawalparasi district. The... 

Police reinforcements have been rushed to a remote part of Papua New Guinea after officers clashed with a shadowy cult accused of beheading villagers and offering them as human sacrifices. Several people were reportedly killed and many injured after gun battles broke out between police and members of the cult, based in the mountains of Morobe province on PNG’s north coast. Religious cults flourish...