MAE SAI, Thailand - As ecstatic relatives watched and waved from behind a glass barrier, the 12 boys and their soccer coach rescued from deep within a flooded cave in Thailand made the V-for-victory sign on Wednesday from their beds in a hospital isolation ward where they are recovering from the 18-day ordeal.
UNITED NATIONS - An African woman whose people are nomads constantly searching for food and water told Security Council members on Wednesday they must consider climate change as a security risk that is fueling extremism, conflict and migration.
PARIS - They've been in use since 1900, when the Paris Metro opened for business, but soon the city's familiar rectangular tickets will become a thing of the past, replaced by a fully automated system similar to the one in London.
MINGORA, Pakistan - The Buddha of Swat, carved on a cliff in the seventh century, was dynamited by the Pakistani Taliban in 2007. Now it has been restored, a powerful symbol of tolerance in the traumatized Pakistani valley.
PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island - The US Navy says it will now allow servicewomen to sport ponytails and other hairstyles in a move it says will make the service more inclusive.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - As the Middle East's first power station with Chinese investment and construction cooperation, the Hassyan Clean Coal project in the United Arab Emirates is on track, faster than expected, for the goal of starting operation by 2020.
MEXICO CITY - Mexico's president-elect is vowing radical change. And nowhere has it been more visible than in his decision to forgo bodyguards, and let fans mob him - leaving security experts aghast.
SAN BENITO, Texas - With tears and smiles, Salvadoran asylum-seeker Walter Armando Jimenez Melendez was reunited with his 4-year-old son Jeremy on Tuesday after six weeks of anguished separation.
China's nongovernmental organizations could have a wider role to play in the United Nations' sustainable development efforts, according to a UN official.
TULASIGERI, India - When top Indian officials salute the national flag anywhere in the world, women in a village at the other end of the country from New Delhi swell with pride.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited on Wednesday Okayama prefecture battered by the country's worst rain-related disaster in decades, with the casualty scores continuing to rise.
ISLAMABAD - The death toll of the suicide blast that hit a public rally in Pakistan's northwest provincial capital of Peshawar on Tuesday night rose to 21 on Wednesday, officials said, in the first major attack ahead of July 25 polls.
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