More than 200 refugees engaged in a mass brawl in a shelter in the German city of Hamburg, leaving several people injured in a third such incident in Germany this week.

A scuffle between two large groups of Syrians and Afghanis broke out in a crowded refugee center in Hamburg on Wednesday and lasted all through the day till late night, according to local media.

The groups were attacking each other with iron bars and wooden pieces of furniture as well as were throwing rocks. The refugees have also set a dustbin on fire.

Four people were injured in the clashes. Two teenagers, 16, suffered lacerated head wounds with one 18 year old man and a member of a security service being also injured, the German newspaper Bild reports, citing police sources.

Police had to bring in as many as 50 officers to take the situation under control and managed to stop the fighting by 2 a.m. with the police patrols still present at the scene on Thursday morning. The investigators are now questioning the witnesses.

According to police reports, the causes of the brawl are yet not clear, with no arrests made so far.

One more scuffle occurred on Wednesday in another Hamburg's shelter, Bild reports. A quarrel between refugees broke out when one of them accused his neighbor of stealing his mobile phone. As a result, four people were arrested including the suspected thief, but later they were released.

The two scuffles in Hamburg were just the latest in a series of brawls in German refugee centers.

On Sunday, 300 Albanians clashed with 70 Pakistanis in a shelter in the town of Kassel-Calden in the German region of Hessen after two refugees had brawled over the dispensation of food. 14 people including three police officers were injured in that fighting, as reported by the German media.

He called them his grandmas.

The Rev. Alex Orozco befriended the elderly women shortly after his assignment to St. Rose of Lima parish in Short Hills.

Orozco was a new priest, charming and kind and afire with enthusiasm.

And always, it seemed, willing to accept money, parishioners said.

For a car. For a big-screen TV. For a house in the Poconos. For another house in his native Colombia. For credit card bills. For a second car. For plane tickets. For furniture. For dental work.

From 2013 through the end of last year, Orozco allegedly took more than $250,000 in cash and goods from women in the wealthy parish after telling them hard-luck stories about the financial woes afflicting him, his family members and his friends.

The case has sparked a criminal investigation by the Essex County Prosecutor's Office and has raised broader questions about the limits on what clergymen should accept from generous parishioners and whether some of those transactions rise to the level of fraud or theft.

According to an unofficial count conducted by Ozymandias Media, an independent research group, a dog is shot by law enforcement every 98 minutes.

In an investigative report, it was discovered that a single police department in Buffalo, NY, shot 92 dogs in less than three years. In Southwest Florida, the News-Press discovered 111 instances of dog shootings among multiple agencies between 2009 and 2012, representing about 37 per year. According to the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Police shot approximately 90 dogs per year between 2008 and 2013.

It is an undisputed fact that cops frequently kill dogs.

Video after gruesome video, pop up online showing how police often and without hesitation pull the trigger and kill man's best friend. Every so often, however, a compassionate officer will show restraint and refuse to kill the beloved family pet.

With three high school football players dying from in-game injuries so far this season, declining interest in the sport and a spate of other injuries, schools are beginning to take a hard look at cutting their football programs.

Star quarterback Evan Murray, a senior at Warren Hills Regional High School in New Jersey, died last Friday night. He took a big hit in the backfield during a game, collapsing on the field and dying soon after, Lehigh Valley Live reported. The county medical examiner determined that Murray had ruptured his abnormally large spleen.

Murray was the third high school player to die this month from the direct result of football injuries, according to the New York Times. Tyrell Cameron, a sophomore at Franklin Parish High School in Louisiana, died on September 5 after being hit during a punt return. Ben Hamm, a 16-year-old linebacker at Wesleyan Christian School in Oklahoma, died on September 19, eight days after he sustained a head injury during a game.

Last year, five football players died over the course of the season, according to the National Center for Catastrophic Sport Injury Research.

A debate sparked by the free-range parenting movement has drawn attention to the threats and intrusions poor, minority families have long endured.

On July 29, 2013, a Latina mother in Illinois named Natasha Felix sent her three sons, ages 11, 9, and 5, out to play with a visiting cousin, a young girl, in a fenced park right next to her apartment building. The oldest boy was charged with keeping an eye on his siblings, while Felix watched them all from the window. While they were outside, a local preschool teacher showed up at the park with her class. She saw the 9-year-old climb a tree. Felix's youngest son fought with his cousin over a scooter and, at one point, ran with it into the street. Based on this, the teacher called the child-abuse hotline, and Felix received a visit from the Department of Children and Family Services.

According to legal filings in the case, the investigator, Nancy Rodriguez, found that Felix's kids "were clothed appropriately, appeared clean [and] well groomed," and that Felix "appeared to be a good mother." Felix's oldest son seemed like a "mature young boy" who "certainly could be allowed to go outside by himself to the park next door."

Convicted Norwegian far-right mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik has threatened to go on hunger strike "until death" over his "deteriorating" living conditions, in what many would consider something of a resort in terms of prison life.

Breivik was sentenced to 21 years in prison for unleashing in a series of attacks against Norwegian civilians on July 22 2011, mostly teenagers. Initially he killed eight people by setting off a van bomb in the government quarter in Oslo, and then shot dead 69 participants of a Workers' Youth League (AUF) summer camp on the island of Utoya.

During his sentencing Breivik claimed that he did not recognize the legitimacy of the court, refusing to accept its decision. He is currently confined at a maximum security Skien prison, south of Oslo, conditions of which he continues to detest.

In an open letter, the mass murderer complained, that since beginning of September, he had been kept in a single cell, isolated from the rest of the inmates. In addition he was only allowed to leave for one hour each day. Breivik also wrote that he was being given less time with prison staff, with communication often taking place only through a small gap in the door.

"Unless the 02/09/15 escalation [sic] is reversed, I will eventually continue the hunger strike until death. I can not stand any more," he wrote to Norwegian and Swedish media.

The convict, who is studying political science at University of Oslo says that his living conditions undermine his attempt to pursue his courses.

"The decision about the drastic deterioration of prison conditions forced me to drop out of my studies, which in turn means that I will lose my place at the University. The studies, which were made possible for only thirteen full days before the Minister of Justice put an end to them, were the only thing I had," Breivik wrote.

Italy has told the European Commission that it will ban growing crops with genetically modified organisms (GMOs) under a rule that allows European Union countries to opt out of GMO cultivation, a government statement said on Thursday.

Italy's Agriculture, Environment and Health ministers wrote to the commission to "request to exclude cultivation of all the GMOs authorised at an EU level from all of Italian territory," the statement said.

Venom specialists said on Wednesday disease and disability caused by snake bites is far higher than official global health estimates suggest and antivenom stocks are running dangerously low.

In a joint statement after a five-day conference in Britain, the international experts said snake bites kill more people than all other so-called Neglected Tropical Diseases combined, yet get little attention or funding from the World Health Organisation (WHO) or from governments.

Citing new evidence from a study in India and Bangladesh, the experts said around 46,000 people died annually of snake bites in India, plus another 6,000 in Bangladesh. The WHO estimates the annual death toll in India from snake bites is 10,000.

Eastern Child Development Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico, was closed this week while the New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department investigated a video (shown below) that showed an employee putting a pacifier into a baby's mouth, covering her face with a blanket and roughly rocking her on Sept. 18.

The employee, identified as Ariadnys Armas, was arrested on Sept. 29 and charged with felony child abuse, KOB reports.

Director of the center, Hannah Tapia, told KOB that Armas was fired as soon as the cell phone video emerged.

"She was let go immediately," Tapia said. "I asked her 'why?' She said she just had one bad day. We told her that wasn't acceptable behavior, she could've really hurt that baby."

The mother of the 6-month-old baby in the video, Ashley Tapia, also works at the daycare center.

"I was shaking," she said. "I was so angry and hurt because I had never had any concerns about my daughter's teacher. She was always well trusted and well liked."

The infant is doing well, but the center remains closed, pending an investigation, NY Daily News reports. Some 289 children attend the center.

"Based on the disturbing videos we have seen, we are not comfortable with children being at the facility until we have completed a more in-depth investigation into possible systemic issues," said CYFD spokesman Henry Varela in a statement. "We are working with families to identify alternate placement options so no child is without care while we complete this investigation."

Police in Oregon are on the scene at Umpqua Community College where a gunman opened fire this morning, killing at least 10 people and wounding 20 others.

Scanner reports indicated the suspect is 'down', but the gunman's condition remains unknown at this time.

According to law enforcement officials, at least one of the injured victims was a woman who was shot in the chest.