Victorian Police and youth workers will launch a joint effort this Wednesday to target youth crime in an attempt to reduce offending.

The Victorian state government has dedicated 1.7 Million Dollars to the ‘Embedded Youth Outreach Program, which will see Police Officers paired up with youth workers every night in some of Melbourne's crime hot-spots such as Dandenong, Casey and Hobson's Bay.

Far-right activists have clashed with anti-fascists in the German town of Chemnitz, following the death of a German national of Cuban descent.

Two men, of Syrian and Iraqi origin, were arrested in relation to the murder, prompting far-right activists to rally in the streets.

A friend of the deceased said the neo-Nazis are exploiting his death for their own purposes, as the media only reported a German death, leaving out who had died and the colour of skin.

Japan and Korea are facing flood threats, as summer typhoons have brought significant rainfall and haven’t yet ceased.

The Japanese Meteorological Agency issued warnings of heavy rain which may cause landslides and floods in Honshu’s Niigata and Ishikawa prefectures.

The slow-moving rain band is predicted to bring up to 250mm more rain to across the Korean Peninsula and the Japanese island of Honshu.

Germany has returned the remains of massacred Herero and Nama tribespeople to Namibia, over 100 years after the Namibian Genocide.

The indigenous Namibian people were slaughtered in 1904 to 1908 in retaliation for a revolt against land seizures, and the bones sent back to Germany as evidence of European racial superiority.

Herero chief Vekuii Rukoro says Germany took to apologise for the genocide, and the handover ceremony should have taken place in a German government building, not in a church.

The Indian Supreme Court has criticised police for the high-profile arrests of five prominent activists in connection with caste violence.

Police officials state the activists had spurred members of the Dalit caste into weeks of violence and protests across the Maharashtra state in January.  

The Supreme Court granted a reprieve to arrested human rights activists, directing them to be held under house arrest instead of police custody.

Residents Melbourne's west have been warned to shelter inside and keep their doors and windows shut, as a blaze rages through a West Footscray factory, sending toxic smoke into the suburbs.

The Metropolitan Fire Brigade (MFB) says the fire began early this morning; more than 80 firefighters were fighting the fire and 30 trucks and cherry picker aerial appliances were on the scene.

The MFB issues a Watch and Act message urging everyone within a 500-metre radius to take shelter indoors immediately.

A frontline Sydney homeless service has had its patrol hours halved, inciting concerns about the welfare and safety of the cities homeless.

The Missionbeat vans, who provide the Sydney’s homeless population with blankets, bottled water, transport services and crisis accomodation, have had their patrol hours reduced from 16 to 6 hours per day.

These changes are due to a change in service models in order to more effectively target Sydney's homeless population.

Sunshine Coast firefighters have been called to use the ‘jaws of life’ in order to save a family’s King Charles Spaniel Puppy who had its neck trapped within a electric reclining chair

The dog was caught when the family’s grandmother lowered her chair when attempting to pet the puppy, its neck becoming stuck between 2 metal bars underneath the chair.

A University of Queensland scientist, as part of an international team, has found wildlife plays a greater role in the transmission of parasitic worms than previously understood.

Dr Nicholas Clark says some parasitic worms, like the dog tapeworm, have spread around the world thanks to our domestication of animals, eventually infecting humans and causing health impacts.