Shocking footage shows a strict Chinese teacher standing by the school gate as girl students wait in line to have their faces wiped with a wet rag to remove their makeup!

The fire onboard an oil tanker at Norway's Sture crude export terminal has been put out, the local fire service told reporters on Friday.

Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu visited grief-stricken family members whose children have been kidnapped by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) terror group in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır. Some 28 families are staging a demonstration in Diyarbakir, claiming that the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) forcibly recruited their sons to the terrorist PKK.

South Africa's activist groups march against gender violence in Johannesburg, South Africa on September 13, 2019.

Two octopuses in Obira, on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, have predicted the hosts of the Rugby World Cup will not progress from their pool when the tournament begins later this month.

'Aida' by Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi is being performed during the 26th International Aspendos Opera and Ballet Festival in Antalya, Turkey on September 12, 2019.

Climate activists glued themselves to a door and poured a “bleeding” red carpet at the opening of London Fashion Week on Friday, seeking to draw attention to the apparel industry's impact on the environment.

Two environmental activists, planning on flying drones to disrupt flights at Heathrow airport, are arrested in London.

A total of 94 irregular migrants, including women and children who were trying to reach Greece's Lesbos Island, were held by gendarmerie forces on September 13, 2019 in Ayvacik district of Turkey's western Çanakkale province.

A third person has died in southern Spain's torrential rains, the local mayor told Spanish radio Cadena Ser on Friday as airports and dozens of roads were closed in a second day of heavy rainfall.

The U.S. on Thursday voiced general support for peaceful protests when asked about ongoing sit-in demonstration in Turkey's Diyarbakir province outside of the headquarters of a Turkish opposition party accused by the Turkish government of having links to the PKK terror group. State Department spokesman Morgan Ortagus told reporters in response to a question that the U.S. is aware of the demonstrations, reiterating U.S. support for freedom of expression.

Singaporean robot creator Wong Choon Yue raises his left hand and swipes it past a sensor in a high-five gesture. For the last six years, the couple has been developing EDGAR, short for Expressions Display and Gesturing Avatar Robot, which lets people in different locations transmit gestures and facial expressions to each other.

Turkish security forces on Friday arrested nine suspects, including two women, for their suspected links to the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETÖ), the group behind the 2016 coup attempt, a security source said.

The UN has sent 36 trucks of humanitarian aid to Syria's northwestern Idlib province on Thursday. The convoy passed through the Cilvegozu border gate in southern Hatay's Reyhanlı district.

A total of 140 irregular migrants, including women and children who were trying to reach Greece's Lesbos Island, were held by security forces on Thursday in Turkey's western Çanakkale province.

After expressing Islamabad's concerns at the United Nations' human rights forum about a possible 'genocide' by India in the disputed Muslim-majority territory of Kashmir, Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi underlined that Kashmiris are only fighting for their rights, even though India is trying to brand it as terrorism. “If you convert a Muslim-majority state [Jammu and Kashmir] into a Muslim-minority state, through a demographic change and that is a disputed area, which is forcibly...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has denied lying to Queen Elizabeth over the reasons for suspending parliament for five weeks after a court ruled his decision to do so was unlawful.

The Turkish and U.S. armed forces on Thursday started their fourth joint helicopter flight for a planned safe zone east of the Euphrates River in northern Syria.

Iraqi Foreign Minister Mohamed Ali Alhakim on Thursday met with his Tunisian counterpart Khemaies Jhinaoui in Tunis.

Blasts rocked an ammunition depot in northern Cyprus on Thursday after a fire broke out in a military zone, with shattered glass slightly injuring some people, the Turkish Cypriot Foreign Minister Kudret Ozersay said.