KIDAPAWAN, The Philippines - Muslim rebels withdrew from a southern Philippine village on Wednesday after security forces moved rapidly to prevent another crisis amid a monthlong militant siege in nearby Marawi city, officials said.
LUCKNOW, India - Yoga has connected the world with India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Wednesday, as he rolled out his mat along with millions of others across the globe to celebrate the ancient practice.
TOKYO - Tokyo's famed Tsukiji fish market - the world's biggest - won't be destroyed but will be closed for up to five years while it is modernized and turned into a "food theme park", the capital's governor said on Tuesday.
OSLO - One of the biggest icebergs on record is like a "niggling tooth" about to snap off Antarctica and will be an extra hazard for ships around the frozen continent as it breaks up, scientists said on Wednesday.
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - King Salman on Wednesday appointed his 31-year-old son Mohammed bin Salman as crown prince, placing him first-in-line to the throne and removing his nephew, the country's counterterrorism chief and a figure well-known to Washington from the line of succession.
AMMAN - The US military said it had shot down an armed, Iranian-made drone that had been bearing down on its forces near a garrison in Syria's southeast on Tuesday, in the latest sign of increasingly frequent confrontation with Damascus and its allies.
Queen Elizabeth opened an unusual two-year session of the Parliament on Wednesday which will be dominated if not overwhelmed by groundwork for negotiations for the United Kingdom's planned exit from the European Union.
BRUSSELS - Belgium has avoided a serious attack, its interior minister said on Wednesday, after a suspected suicide bomber planning to explode a large bomb caused only a minor explosion in Brussels' central station on Tuesday.
WASHINGTON - NASA has revealed 10 new rocky, Earth-sized planets that could potentially have liquid water and support life.
WEST TABIR, Indonesia - Hulking excavators claw at riverbanks on Indonesia's Sumatra island in the hunt for gold, transforming what was once a rural idyll into a scarred, pitted moonscape.
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - They were jailed for murder, armed robbery and other violent crimes. But the inmates of a maximum-security prison in Argentina are now seeking redemption through the rough and tumble of rugby.
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