Riley Greene and Spencer Torkelson drove in runs with hits and Detroit blanked Cleveland 3-0 on Wednesday to reach the brink of advancing in the Major League Baseball playoffs.
Israeli police killed at least four Palestinians in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus on Wednesday, Palestinian health authorities and Israeli security forces said.
Israel's military chief Herzi Halevi vowed on Wednesday to keep targeting Hezbollah, saying strikes would continue "without respite" to prevent the group from recovering.
British pharmaceutical company GSK said Wednesday it has agreed to pay $2.3 billion in the United States to put an end to lawsuits alleging that its Zantac heartburn drug caused cancer.
Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te is set to deliver a key speech on Thursday as part of the self-ruled island's National Day celebrations that is likely to elicit an angry response from China.
Singer and designer Pharrell Williams is among the co-chairs of New York's next Met Gala, which will wade into race relations in the context of fashion, the museum announced Wednesday.