More of a local-ish story from Germany: Some policeman shot a catfish that attacked some swimmers at a lake in Bavaria three times.

He didn't even kill the fish, it was later fished out of the lake and killed. There's a big investigation into if that policeman was right to shoot the fish and if it was right to kill it in the first place (it wasn't IMO).

Germany: After Germany started ramping up border controls, Poland has now started stopping and controlling people coming in from Germany in retaliation.

Croatia:

• Thompson 0.5mill people concert was yesterday in a country with less than 4mill people, so more than 20% of people attended the concert.
• also it is one of the biggest concerts in the world if not the biggest by tickets sold.
• sauce in english

Germany:

• Current government promised to reduce taxation on electricity "for all, immediately", but only reduced it for large companies instead.
• The former minister of health did some odd deals to acquire masks at the beginnig of the pandemic, which now become public.
• Border controls to reject immigrants has been an issue between Germany and Poland.

Catfishes are biting swimmers in a lake and therefore getting shot by police.

UK. The Australian Mushroom murders are big news here.

Australia: A mother was found guilty today of murdering her in-laws and a friend by inviting them over for a beef Wellington lunch, laced with foraged Death Cap mushrooms. Tried fairly hard to get her (estranged) husband over for the lunch too.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-07/erin-patterson-mushroom-murder-trial-verdict-guilty-live-blog/105477452

Brazil: the big retirement fund steal (Fraude do INSS) and how the govt is acting to try and give the old people their money back.

In an extremely predictable twist, the right-wing is doing everything they can to paint the fraud solely as the current govt's fault, despite them being in control from 2016-2022, years during which said fraud was already running.

Political scandal involving our current prime minister and his funding sources, that seem like cutbacks or getting paid for money laundering.

Last news article I saw making waves was train ticket prices going up