It took a while to wrap my mind around this story.
From the BBC:

An Italian court has ordered the government to pay 100,000 euros (£79,919) to a man who had to retake his driving test because he was gay.
Danilo Giuffrida, now 26, told doctors he was homosexual during a medical examination for military service.
The information was [...]

…and the mute donkey mayor can only talk about there not being a pact between the high school students.
BBC:

A US town mayor says there is “no evidence” to support claims that 17 Massachusetts schoolgirls became pregnant because of a “pregnancy pact”.
When details first emerged of the high rate of pregnancies at Gloucester High School, the [...]

A man was pardoned in Australia for a murder he did not commit. Good right? Too bad he was executed 86 years ago.
A man hanged in 1922 for the murder and rape of a young girl in the southern Australian city of Melbourne was posthumously pardoned for the crime on Tuesday after new tests found [...]