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More than 500 passengers were being evacuated on Wednesday from a ferry that caught fire about a mile off Puerto Rico's north coast.

Protests in Mali's capital against the arrest of a popular activist radio host have turned violent, leaving at least three people dead and several injured.

Male officials are dictating what women can wear on French beaches — and people across a wide swath of French society say that's a good thing.

German police on Wednesday searched the home of a 27-year-old man on suspicion he had explosives stored there but found only firecrackers and no indications he was planning an attack, they said.

Local authorities say a regional train has hit a tree that had fallen on the tracks in a rural area in southeast France, seriously injuring one person.

Hundreds of people have marched in the eastern Congo city of Beni to protest inaction against rebels who are suspected of killing at least 50 people in a weekend attack.

A Czech company is offering bus trips to Auschwitz and elsewhere with the images of Holocaust victims and the Nazi death camp on its exterior.

French President Francois Hollande is visiting Pope Francis for a special audience after a spate of Islamic extremist attacks over recent months left more than 200 dead, including an elderly French priest.

South Africa's main opposition party says it has agreed with several smaller parties to build governing coalitions in some municipalities following elections in which the ruling African National Congress suffered its worst setback since taking power.

A British woman has been sentenced to at least 30 years in prison for the January murder of a woman she considered her love rival.

Spanish officials say firefighters rescued two hungry and thirsty British walkers who were lost for five days in the Pyrenees mountains bordering Spain and France.

A Kenya hospital official says a descendant of British aristocrats who twice had been accused of murdering locals has died after cardiac arrest.

Four suspected militants were killed Wednesday in a shoot-out with intelligence officers in St. Petersburg, Russia's top investigative body said.

A journalists' group says police have detained 24 employees of a pro-Kurdish newspaper a day after a court ordered it shut down for allegedly engaging in "terrorist propaganda." The Turkish Journalists' Association said Wednesday some workers of the daily Ozgur Gundem were "ill-treated" as they were taken away.

Russia's top investigative body says four suspected militants have been killed in a shoot-out with intelligence officers in St. Petersburg.

Authorities in Puerto Rico say more than 500 passengers have been evacuated after a small fire erupted on a cruise ship that runs between Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic.

Romanian authorities say families who want to adopt a child will no longer be able to make a choice based on the child's ethnicity.

Indonesia's government has reduced a radical Islamic cleric's prison sentence by three months to mark the country's Independence Day.

Indian police say three people, including two children, have died after their throats were slashed by glass-coated kite string used in competitions to slice the strings of other kites.

The captain of a speedboat that collided with a tourist boat off the Greek island of Aegina, leaving four people dead, has appeared in court and was given until Friday to prepare his defense.