Around 3,700 people are facing at least two weeks locked away on a cruise liner anchored off Japan after health officials confirmed on Wednesday that 10 people on the ship had tested positive for coronavirus and more cases were possible. The quarantine decision meant that passengers on Carnival's Diamond Princess, which had arrived in Yokohama on Monday after a 14-day round trip, will now spend another two weeks on the ship off Yokohama port near Tokyo.

One person died and 81 others were injured on Tuesday when a truck crammed with Central American migrants flipped over in Southern Mexico on a highway that leads to the United States, according to officials in the Mexican state of Veracruz.

The ongoing attacks by Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria and its allies forced some 40,000 civilians to flee their homes in Idlib, a de-escalation zone in northwestern Syria, over the last two days, according to sources on the ground.

U.S. President Donald Trump snubbed U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday, declining to shake her hand as he handed her a paper copy of his State of the Union speech. At the end of his 80-minute speech to a joint session of Congress, Pelosi stood and ripped apart her copy of the remarks he had handed her as millions watched on television. She later told reporters it was 'the courteous thing to do, considering the alternative.'

Various shots from debris removal of damaged building on February 04, 2020 after 6.8-magnitude quake shook the province of Elazig.

A pregnant women in eastern Turkey were taken to the hospital by helicopter due to the closed roads on February 04, 2020. When Nurten Uygun felt sick her relatives asked for help from provincial gendarmerie command due to the road being closed in Siirt province. Medical teams took the woman from the village by helicopter and brought her to Siirt State Hospital after the first intervention.

At least 13 pupils are confirmed killed in a school stampede in Western Kenya, and more than 39 were injured, authorities said Monday. The children were exiting a primary school in the town of Kakamega at around 5 PM local time (1400GMT) when the stampede occurred, Peris Kimani, Western Province Region Police commander, told local media, adding that the injured were rushed to hospital and 20 were treated and discharged.

A German artist, Simon Weckert , fooled Google Maps by walking around the streets of Berlin with a little red wagon filled with 99 cell phones which were connected to the web mapping service. He borrowed the phones from friends and from rental companies to create a traffic-heavy red zone on Google Maps.

A convoy of 10 trucks carrying portable bulletproof guard boxes crosses into Syria's Idlib province from Reyhanli district of Turkey's border province Hatay. The Turkish military on Tuesday sent the guard boxes to northwestern Syria to reinforce its observation posts that ring the last opposition-held Idlib. Later the convoy crossed into northwestern Syria, heading to country's 12 observations posts.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Qatari Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani hold a meeting at presidential complex in Ankara, Turkey on February 04, 2020.

Pakistan will do its best to buy more palm oil from Malaysia after top buyer India put curbs on such imports last month amid a diplomatic row with the Southeast Asian nation, Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Tuesday.

The death toll from a coronavirus outbreak in China rose to 425 as of the end of Monday, up by 64 from the previous day, the country's National Health Commission said on Tuesday.

Joaquin Phoenix, star of the hit movie the Joker, protested for animal rights in London.

An Indian son allegedly locked his poor 90-year-old mother up for two days in a room in Azamnagar while he went to another city with his wife. The woman was freed after her two daughters contacted the police when they discovered the house padlocked.

Members of Ottoman military marching band Mehter team attend 'The Moors and Christians of Alcoy' festival within celebrations marking the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the 'Los Turcos', in Sax, Alicante, Spain on February 03, 2020.

A construction worker was killed in Saint Petersburg after the roof of a sports stadium collapsed during a planned demolition, according to media reports.

Medical workers on strike in support of the closure of Hong Kong's borders with mainland China on February 03, 2020 in Hong Kong. Hundreds of medical workers participated in the strike to demand closure of the Hong Kong - Mainland China border to help contain the novel coronavirus outbreak.

Syrian refugee boy's dream to have a bike came true thanks to a Turkish philanthropist. Subuh Kaud, 5, got a new brand bicycle on Sunday (Feb. 2) from an unidentified Turkish living in the capital Ankara. Last month on January 15, Kaud who is staying in a refugee camp near Turkish border and suffering though conditions asked for a bike, innocently proving that a child is a child anywhere. Two weeks after Anadolu Agency published the story of the ill-fated Syrian child and his family, the Turkish...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is welcomed by his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky with an official ceremony prior to their meeting at the Mariinskiy Palace in Kiev, Ukraine on February 03, 2020.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu meets with his Malaysian counterpart Saifuddin Abdullah on the sideline of the Emergency Open-Ended Executive Committee Ministerial Meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on February 03, 2020 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.