A religious motivational book believed to have been written 1,400 years ago was seized Friday by security forces in southeastern Turkey. The 36-page book written on papyrus paper was seized in an operation carried out by local gendarmes in Diyarbakir province.

A street stall with oil paintings creating an image of a yacht in the Venice canal with a sign reading 'Venice in oil', set up by a person purporting to be British artist Banks in Venice, Italy.

Tornadoes killed at least three people in southwest Missouri and slammed into the state capital just before midnight on Wednesday, with rescue workers in Jefferson City searching into the morning for the injured, officials said.

Adorable footage shows a group of cats gathering for a front seat on the windowsill to watch in wonder as a Japanese farmer mows his field.

Australian actor Geoffrey Rush has been awarded a A$2.8 million ($1.9 million) defamation payment against a News Corp tabloid, the largest defamation payout in Australian history, after it accused him in reports of inappropriate behaviour.

A lucky man miraculously survived a twelve-storey fall from a high-rise building after landing on an outdoor dinner tent in China.

Watch this hilarious moment as adorable geese gather all together quickly with just one call of their owner.

An elderly motorcyclist immediately regretted flaunting his skills when he crashed right into a pole.

A quick-thinking Turkish bus driver rushed an elderly passenger to the nearest hospital after he suddenly fainted on the bus.

Watch as a member of the Turkish police heroically intervenes and stops a girl from jumping to her death as she prepares to commit suicide from atop Diyarbakır's ancient walls.

Watch as this Palestinian street vendor blasts an Islamic chant through his loudspeakers right as a group of Israelis were walking nearby in a crowded Jerusalem market.

Pakistan on Thursday conducted 'successful' training launch of surface-to-surface ballistic missile Shaheen-II, which is capable of carrying both conventional and nuclear warheads up to a range of 1,500 kilometers (932 miles), the military said.

Truck caught fire after police chase in Sacramento.

Cambodia's royal oxen predicted a plentiful harvest of rice, the country's biggest crop, at an ancient plowing ceremony on Wednesday.

Severe storms moving across the Southern Plains caused violent tornadoes that injured people and damaged buildings.

CCTV footage captures the moment a meteor flies over Australia followed by a bright flash of light.

Huawei launched its new Honor 20 series smartphones in London just days after the U.S. delayed a ban on the Chinese firm buying U.S. goods until August 19th.

Watch as this heroic bystander catches a young man as he was about to jump off a bridge to avoid arrest by Turkish police in the coastal province of İzmir.

Turkish firefighters arrived in the nick of time to rescue these adorable kittens from inside a burning factory in Turkey's Sivas province.

Rescuers successfully talked down a man who scaled the upper heights of the Eiffel Tower on Monday, forcing the monument's evacuation, and handed him over to police. Television channels ran live shots as rescuers perched on the 324-metre (1,063-foot) tower's wrought-iron struts, just below the highest viewing platform, tried to persuade the unknown man to give himself up.