Australian police have used pepper spray to break up clashes between two rival groups battling over race and immigration in Melbourne.

Indian police say five people have been arrested over attacks on six Africans last Thursday, the latest in a number of assaults that have strained ties between African countries and India.

Up to 700 migrants are feared drowned in a series of shipwrecks off the coast of Libya in the last few days, the UN refugee agency says.

Hundreds of children, women and men who had been living at an overcrowded drug rehabilitation shelter in western Mexico were rescued in a police operation carried out Tuesday night, according to authorities.

Three journalists allegedly kidnapped by a Marxist guerrilla group in Colombia were released Friday after nearly a week in captivity, officials said.

Seventeen people died after a fire broke out Sunday morning at a home for the elderly near Ukraine's capital, Kiev.

Actor Mark Salling, best known as Noah Puckerman on "Glee," has been indicted on charges of receiving and possessing child pornography, authorities say.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russia will retaliate against the placement of U.S. missiles in nearby countries such as Romania, according to Russia's state-run news agency TASS.

A Chinese firm is apologizing after its seemingly racist ad went viral.

A Kurdish Peshmerga fighter takes part in a graduation ceremony in Irbil on May 5, 2016. Peshmerga forces launched an offensive in the early hours of Sunday to retake territory near the ISIS-controlled city of Mosul.

A Florida sheriff's office arrested a 16-year-old high school football player Friday in connection with a 15-year-old girl having sex with multiple boys in a public school bathroom.

Relatives of the woman shot to death on a San Francisco pier last year filed a lawsuit Friday saying the illegal immigrant accused in the killing should have been in custody if not for a series of mistakes by city and federal workers.