Visitors at the Khao Yai National Park in Thailand recorded shocking footage of a starving elephant that stopped cars to search for food.

Indian police detained leaders in the disputed Kashmir region on Monday (December 17) and sealed off roads in an effort to stifle protests against the killing of civilians on the weekend.

Indonesians staged a protest near building of the Embassy of China to Jakarta to show solidarity to Uyghurs in Eastern Turkistan on Tuesday.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura attended a meeting on Syria at the United Nations Office in Geneva, Switzerland on December 18, 2018.

Turkish Cypriot President Mustafa Akıncı and UN special envoy on Cyprus Jane Holl Lute hold a meeting in Lefkosa on December 18, 2018.

A robber in Karachi, Pakistan got caught in the act of stealing and was beaten by those he had wronged.

Notable Indian actor Aamir Khan shared his inspiration and filmmaking experiences with young, aspiring directors at the Hainan International Film Festival, which closed in south China's Hainan Province on Sunday. Some of the world's leading filmmakers, including Khan, gathered to discuss the future of the movie industry at the festival's masterclasses. The industry leaders also shared their experiences and unique perspectives with young directors and other attendees from home and overseas.

A Syrian Muslim girl was attacked by another student in the bathroom at the Chartiers Valley High School in Pittsburgh, U.S. She repeatedly screams “Leave me alone' to her attacker.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan took the time to talk to an old lady who was waiting for him after his speech in the central province of Konya on Monday.

Watch as this stray dog in Turkey's Kastamonu province nurses a kitten.

A poor puppy fell into an elevator shaft and was rescued after people heard the barking of its mother.

Haldun Koç, Turkish ambassador to Sarajevo, visited Bjelave Child Rearing Dormitory to distribute new year gifts for orphaned children in Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina on Monday.

The Yemeni father of 2-year-old Abdullah Hassan, who suffers from a genetic brain condition that has continued to worsen, asked U.S. authorities to allow his mother, who is being blocked from coming to the U.S. by Donald Trump's travel ban, to say goodbye to her son.

Footage shows the aftermath of the horrific car bombing that killed nine people in Syria's Afrin.

Turkish parliament speaker Binali Yıldırım pays visit to Muslim scholar Gul Baba's tomb during his official tour in Budapest, Hungary on December 17, 2018. .

Huge waves battered coastlines across the U.S. West Coast on Monday as a powerful swell produced waves of up to 40 feet (12.19 metres) . The National Weather Service issued a high surf warning along coasts in Oregon, California and Washington, tweeting that people should 'stay well back from the ocean or risk certain death'.

U.S. Special Envoy for Syria James Jeffrey said Monday that Washington's support for armed groups in northern Syria was temporary. The U.S.'s relationship with the SDF -- a group spearheaded by the YPG/PKK terrorist group – is 'tactical' and 'transactional', Jeffrey said in a speech at the Atlantic Council, a Washington, D.C.-based think-tank.

Two Palestinian people were injured after Israeli forces intervene in the demonstrations with real bullets and tear gas.

Two Chicago police officers were struck and killed by a passing commuter train on Monday while investigating a report of gunfire near railroad tracks on the city's Far South Side, police said. The two officers, Eduardo Marmolejo, 37, and Conrad Gary, 31, both assigned to the Chicago Police Department's Calumet District, were pursuing a suspect along the Metra railway line when they were killed, police said.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Monday said he told U.S. President Donald Trump that if Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) terrorists are not withdrawn from the east of the Euphrates that Turkey would “remove them.” He said the army has completed preparations for the planned operation, adding that Turkey will do 'what is necessary' regarding terror corridors east of the Euphrates River.