Forty-seven-year-old Pelayo Terry has an account on Twitter and a blog where he enthuses about the role of social media in promoting dialogue between the press and the public. His appointment and that of a new woman director at Cuba’s second paper is a shakeup that the Party described as a renewal. It’s the first significant step since the Congress this summer where senior politicians called for a new type of journalism in Cuba in tune with the demand of the time and the society. Cuba has always seen critical reporting as playing into the hands of its enemies.

A six-year-old child in Argentina has become the first underage person in the country to benefit from a new gender law. Her mother said the child was born with male genitals and christened man will but began to identify herself as a girl as soon as she began to speak. The legislation allows children and teenagers to have their gender officially changed without the need of authorization by a doctor or judge.

A gunman who fired more than 20 shots at a federal court building in the US state of West Virginia has died after police returned fire. The local mayor said he’d been identified as a former police officer. Witnesses said he was armed with an assault rifle. Police say they are trying to establish a motive for the shooting.

A newly appointed football coach in Bulgaria has resigned after fans who didn’t want him to have the job stormed into his inaugurate news conference and stripped him off the team shirt. Ivaylo Petev called the incident extremely ugly and said he didn’t want to work with the team, Levski Sofia in such an environment.