In this photo taken Wednesday, May 29, 2013 a sign outside a home reads "We Are Here To Stay" and at bottom, "Our God, Our Nation, Our Land" in Kleinforntein, near Pretoria, South Africa. id era that ended with democratic elections in 1994. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)

by Christopher Torchia

KLEINFONTEIN, South Africa (AP) — There are no signs that say "Whites Only."

US Secretary of State John Kerry meets with South African Foreign Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Saturday May 25, 2013. (AP Photo/Jim Young, pool)

by Kirubel Tadesse
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — The African Union on Saturday marked 50 years since the founding of a continentwide organization that helped liberate Africa from colonial masters and which now is trying to stay relevant on a continent regularly troubled by conflict.

Members and supporters of the extreme right party Golden Dawn march in central Athens on May 29, during a rally marking the anniversary of the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Empire in 1453.  (AP Photo/Dimitri Messinis)

by Derek Gatopoulos
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece's coalition government was in disarray Thursday over efforts to crackdown on growing racist violence, as majority conservatives and their center-left partners clashed over the best way to tackle anti-immigrant violence.

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford reads a statement to the media at City Hall on Friday, May 24, 2013 in Toronto. Ford denied that he smokes crack cocaine and says he is not an addict after a video purported to show him using the drug. Ford did not say whether he has ever used the drug. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Chris Young)
 
by Rob Gillies
TORONTO (AP) - Toronto Mayor Rob Ford denied that he smokes crack cocaine and said he is not an addict, breaking a week of silence over reports of a video purportedly showing him using the drug. Critics were not appeased, with one city councilor questioning whether the mayor told "the whole truth" and another calling on him to resign.

The controversy has drawn comparisons to the 1990 arrest of then-Washington Mayor Marion Barry, who was videotaped smoking crack cocaine in a hotel room during an FBI sting operation. Barry served six months in federal prison on a misdemeanor drug possession conviction and later won a fourth term as mayor in 1994.