A powerful lightning storm illuminated the sky in New York on Tuesday evening.

A fire broke out in a container ship anchored at Dubai's Jebel Ali Port on Wednesday, state-run media said."A fire has been reported to have broken out in a container within a ship anchored in Jebel Ali Port," the government's Dubai Media Office said in a Twitter post.

Fifteen-year-old Bosnian Jasmin Osmanovic was declared a hero in the Swedish city of Gothenburg where he ran to the rescue of his neighbor, jumping into her burning house and lowering her to safety from the window.

A drone attack targeted Erbil International Airport in northern Iraq late Tuesday where US-led coalition troops are stationed.The airport was attacked by an explosives-laden drone at 10:30 p.m., with a fire breaking out at the site, the Kurdish Regional Government’s counterterrorism directorate said in a statement.

Residents of Saudi capital Riyadh were shocked to find a lion taking a stroll on their roofs. Authorities reportedly managed to capture the wild animal unharmed and are investigating the incident.

Footage shared by Turkey’s National Defense Ministry shows F-16s jets as they landed at the northern Polish Malbork Air Base to join NATO's Air Policing mission in the region that will last until mid-September.

Shocking CCTV footage shows the moment a reckless driver drove right into a moving tractor as it was a making a turn in Turkey's Mardin province.

Authorities in Russia lost contact with an AN-26 plane with 29 people on board in the Far Eastern Kamchatka region, local authorities reported on Tuesday.The emergency services announced that they had spotted the area in which the plane fell into the sea, with a group of vessels dispatched and heading towards the site.The plane of the Kamchatka Aviation Enterprise was en route to settlement of Palana from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky city when it went missing, according to a statement by the Far Eas...

Tens of protesters in Sweden's capital city Stockholm commemorated the Uighur Muslims who were killed during the Urumqi Incidents in 2009 and condemned the Chinese government’s systematic campaign against Uighurs.

Turkish forces neutralized two PKK terrorists in an air operation in Iraq’s northern Metina region, the National Defense Ministry said on Tuesday. Turkey’s operations against the terror group are continuing effectively and decisively, the ministry said in a statement.

The third calf of elephants Begumcan and Winner, living in Izmir Natural Life Park, took its first steps in the garden of the zoo. Weighing 124 kilograms, the baby elephant became the main attraction as visitors gathered around to watch.

Two people died and two others were injured in an accident in which a speeding truck rammed into vehicles waiting at a red light in southwestern Saudi Arabia’s Mahayel Asir, according to a report on Gulf News.

A wedding convoy in Turkey all but halted traffic in the Eastern Anatolian region of Elazığ as these party animals failed to contain themselves and started performing a traditional dance in the middle of the road.

Citizens across the populous melting pot of Turkey’s Istanbul woke up to the pitter patter of rain against their windows on Tuesday morning.

US forces shot down an armed drone flying over the US embassy in Baghdad on Monday night, said an Iraqi security source.Defense systems fired rockets into the air to shoot down the drone, which was laden with explosives, said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Footage shows the moment a truck carrying fireworks ahead of a planned 4th of July celebrations exploded on a beach in the U.S. state of Maryland, signaling an early start to the festivities!

Footage shows crews hard at work as they clean the roof of the holy Kaaba in Mecca ahead of the Hajj pilgrimage and the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, or the Feast of the Sacrifice, which will begin on July 20.

Footage shows the moments the bustling streets of Istanbul’s Eminönü district witnessed a ghastly brawl in which one young man yanked the arm of a mannequin and proceeded to use it to presumably knock his opponents out.

An infernal explosion in the Caspian Sea on Sunday that was thought to be caused by a mud volcano revealed an island when the dust settled.

Footage shows the heartwarming but also terrifying moments Turkish firefighters struggled to rescue squealing puppies in a graveyard in Turkey where they somehow got stuck between its resting residents in the city of Istanbul.