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The first of the extra 1,000 security personnel France is sending to New Caledonia have started to arrive amid riots that have killed five people and injured hundreds more, with the French government saying a state of emergency has started to calm things in the Pacific territory.

World number one Scottie Scheffler is detained by police just hours before the second round of the PGA Championship after trying to drive past a traffic incident.

Police say officers were alerted early on Friday morning that smoke was rising from the synagogue, and came face to face with the man when they got there.

The city of Houston is littered with fallen powerlines and building debris after a powerful thunderstorm with 161 kilometre per hour winds hit Texas. 

Rapper Toomaj Salehi is facing the death penalty for using his music to draw attention to the actions of the Iranian government. Now artists and activists from around the world are trying to save him.

It will be the first time a South American nation has hosted the women's football tournament, preferred by FIFA over a joint bid from Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany.

Palestine's football association is seeking to have its Israeli counterpart removed from FIFA as punishment for its actions in the war against Hamas.

Pro-Palestinian protesters say an encampment at Monash University has been packed up against their will while students at the University of Melbourne continue to occupy a building.

This week's assassination attempt on Slovakia's PM Robert Fico has shone a light on deep political divisions in the country, but there could also be a lesson for several other world leaders in the attack.

Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico is in a "very serious" but stable condition, a hospital official says, after he was shot five times, as a man is charged with attempted murder over Wednesday's attack.