The U.K. is airlifting cash to help skint personnel on Cyprus;  Pope Francis officially begins his gig at the Vatican;  And a alternative music icon probably alienated what’s left of her fan base forever.

37 people are dead after a private tourist bus plunged off of a bridge in India.  The bus was on the Mumbai-Goa highway and went off the bridge over the Jagbudu river, landing on its roof on the riverbank.

Two British tourists were shot and robbed in Bridgeton, Barbados.  The pair was on a stopover from a Caribbean cruise.

The U.K. loaded a million Euros onto a military plane and flew it to Cyprus.  The cash is intended for short-term emergency loans to British military and civilian personnel on Cyprus whose savings might get taxed by the EU bailout scheme to make savers pay for bad banks.  Cash is in short supply because word of the scheme triggered a run on ATM machines.

Pope Francis was formally inaugurated at the Vatican today, in a mass witnessed by 200,000 faithful.  His sermon focused on focused on protecting the environment, children, the elderly, and the poor.

A 67-year old former Bulgarian Military officer allegedly shot and killed three members of a Roma family next door to him in a suburb of Sofia.  The Roma minority is frequently the target of attacks, although rarely this deadly.

Venues in Australia and across America are canceling appearances by folk-punk singer Michelle Shocked, after she came out against gay marriage at a gig in (of all places) the San Francisco Bay Area.  Shocked, who had hits in the late 1980s and early ‘90s, declared that priests would forced to perform gay marriages “at gunpoint” and that would bring Jesus back for the End Times.  Yeah right, Michelle.  Mechanized war, the Holocaust, Nuclear Bombings, Environmental Degradation, and Famine after Famine after Famine: None of that stuff was bad enough to wake Jesus, but Mr. Sulu with a wedding band?  Better stock the shelter with jerky and bottled water.  SMH.