The mayor of Indonesia's second-largest city has officially shut down "Dolly," one of Southeast Asia's biggest red-light districts, but the world's oldest profession is still up and running despite warnings to stop.

Dolly — believed to have been named years ago after a colonial Dutch madam — was supposed to have closed June 18, but on the main drag, young women in skin-tight miniskirts and heels continue to lure guests into rooms lit only by faint red and pink lights.

Italian police dressed as priests have ensnared two would-be blackmailers who were threatening to publish wiretaps of an erotic conversation with a clergyman, local media said Sunday.

Police in the Lombardy region of northern Italy donned priestly garb late Saturday to trap two Romanian men in the town of Lomellina who were trying to get the local church to pay them 250,000 euros ($340,000) not to hand the tape over to the media.

Germany's defense ministry has temporarily halted new orders of its military's standard assault rifle while it probes complaints the weapon doesn't shoot straight, a news report said Sunday.

German troops in Afghanistan in recent years voiced concerns over the G36 automatic rifle made by Heckler and Koch, saying it became inaccurate when its barrel heated up in prolonged firefights.

Scores of Russians in wintry shapka hats paraded up Rio de Janeiro's beachfront Sunday, but their World Cup hopes appeared to melt in the tropical sun as their team lost to Belgium.

Decked out in red, white and blue, a visibly beach-deprived group of about 100 Russians stood out from the suntanned crowd on Copacabana Beach.

Online voters have chosen dozens of works of art to appear on billboards and signs in cities across the U.S. later this summer.

The 58 works picked were announced Friday. The works will begin appearing Aug. 4 in as many as 50,000 displays in all 50 states as part of the "Art Everywhere" initiative organized by five U.S. museums.

Two Ugandan men who sneaked piglets into the east African nation's parliament to protest against corruption have been sent to prison awaiting trial, and the animals impounded as evidence, relatives said Friday.

"At the court the magistrate read to them three charges of criminal trespass, conspiracy to sneak piglets into parliament and a third charge of interrupting parliament work," Richard Sebuliba, a relative of one of the men, told Agence France Presse.

Formula One may be known for its glamourous races in places like Monaco or Abu Dhabi, but for many drivers it wouldn't be the same without a few bovines thrown into the mix. 

The goals have been flying in at the Fonte Nova Arena in Salvador and are providing a boost to the environment in the process.

According to ESPN Brazil, the local government in the state of Bahia promised to plant 1,111 new trees for every goal scored in the World Cup venue, up to a maximum of 31,111.

Spain's shock elimination from the World Cup Saturday attracted scrutiny from North Korean state media which more usually runs vitriolic attacks on the country's enemies and glowing reports on the activities of leader Kim Jong-Un.

North Korean fans said Spain's intricate "tiki-taka" passing style was "worn-out" after the footballing giants' early exit from the tournament, the Korean Central News Agency reported.

Russian women may soon undergo a dramatic makeover if a Kremlin-friendly lawmaker has his way and pushes through a ban on a fashion item they perhaps cherish the most: high heels.

Oleg Mikheyev, a lawmaker with pro-Kremlin A Just Russia party, says vertiginous heels as well as trainers, ballet flats and men's loafers are bad for people's health and it's time to do something about it.