Turkish swimmers Polat Uzer Turnali and Nida Eliz Ustundag were the winners of the 33rd Samsung Bosphorus Cross-Continental Swimming Race in Istanbul on Sunday.

Afghans on Sunday gathered near the entrance gates of Kabul's Hamid Karzai International Airport, hoping to get out of the war-torn country as a number of countries continue to evacuate their citizens and diplomats. The Taliban seized control of Afghanistan after taking Kabul on Aug. 15, forcing the president and other top officials to leave the country.

They say that no good deed goes unpunished as is clearly displayed in this video. Best to mind one’s own business next time.

These two kangaroos got into a spat over God-knows-what, sending each other flying into tables and the sand, with no clear winner whatsoever.

A three-meter python hiding among the spices popped its head out to say hello to a customer in a market in Australia; fortunately, that very customer, 25-year-old Helaina Alati, is a wildlife rescuer who remained cool and collected despite her initial shock. "He was looking straight at me the whole time, almost like he was saying: 'Can you take me outside please?'" she told the BBC. She alerted Woolworths staff and went home to retrieve a snake bag and released it into Sydney’s bushland.

Tropical storm Henri slowly made its way toward the U.S. East Coast on Sunday, expecting to bring with it torrential rains and dangerous storm surges, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) warned. The center also said that the hurricane is heading toward southern New England and Long Island. In New York earlier on Sunday, residents were forced to evacuate a concert due to the approaching storm.

For the first time ever in Turkey, a leatherback sea turtle was spotted in the open waters of the Fethiye district in the country’s southern province of Muğla.

A brazen thief in Turkey’s western Kocaeli Province pelted a jeweler with a rock right in the face, making off with gold resting on the counter-top in scary footage.

Wedding guests were flabbergasted when friends of the groom made a grand entrance as they swept onto the dance floor with their motorcycles in Turkey’s southern province of Hatay. They raced around the dancefloor, delighting the motorbike-enamored groom.

Firefighters were called upon after a fuse box in a home in Turkey’s Istanbul suddenly became occupied by a not-so-welcome guest, a meter-long snake. Firefighters successfully captured the reptile and set it free into the wild.

Israeli warplanes carried out airstrikes late Saturday on several locations in the besieged Gaza Strip.Tensions increased in the region after hundreds of Palestinians demonstrated on the Gaza-Israel border.A few hours after, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz announced that Israel would respond to the shooting of an Israeli soldier during demonstrations earlier on the border.

A forest fire that broke out on one of the Princes' Islands off the coast of Istanbul has been brought under control, the governor of the Turkish metropolis said on Saturday. The fire broke out on the island earlier in the day, forcing people to evacuate.

With the Taliban takeover of Kabul on Aug. 15, thousands of Afghans rushed to the airport in the capital with hopes of catching planes to western countries. Days after Kabul fell to the Taliban, hundreds of Afghan people including women and children are continuing to wait outside the Kabul airport hoping to flee the country. The desperate people have been kept behind the barricade created with barbed wire and concrete blocks. Those who have passports and flight permits are taken to the airport o...

Turkish soldiers Friday helped a two-month-old baby Hadiya, who was separated from her mother during the turmoil that broke out at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Afghanistan's capital, Kabul. Farista Rahmani, the father of her two-month-old Hadiya Rahmani, fell apart from his wife Ali Musa Rahmani during the turmoil at the airport. Turkish soldiers helped the father and two-month-old baby, bringing them to the safe zone, cleaning the baby's bottom and feeding. The baby was later hande...

A 23-year old youth died after falling through the roof of a building while trying to record the perfect video for her TikTok stunt in the Esenyurt district of Turkey's metropolitan city of Istanbul. In the video, which was recorded by her cousin, she's seen disappearing through the hole after stepping on a plastic roof sheet.

Footage shows the heart-stopping moment a quick-thinking police officer and a good Samaritan rescued a man who passed out onto subway tracks in New York City.

Protesters took to the streets of Kabul to mark the 102nd anniversary of Afghanistan's independence on Thursday, waving the country's tri-color national flag in defiance of the Taliban takeover.

An ancient statue of the mythological goddess Hygieia – seen as the guardian or personification of health – has been discovered in an ancient city in western Turkey, according to a researcher. Located near the town of Cavdarhisar in the Kutahya province, the site is also home to one of the best-preserved temples in Anatolia dedicated to Zeus, the thunderbolt-wielding king of the Greek Olympians.

Restoration and repair works have been started to strengthen the three columns with a length of 20 meters in the Temple of Apollo in southwestern Turkey.

Taliban fighters opened fire at protesters trying to hoist Afghanistan's national flag in the eastern city of Jalalabad, killing at least three people, according to local news agencies.