Security officers in Turkey’s Istanbul forcibly removed two women from the Marmaray train for refusing to wear face masks as Covid-19 cases in the country reached a whopping 65,000 as of Monday night.

Police officers in Turkey’s eastern Muş province made the children’s day when they joined in on their snowball fight.

A flock of ostriches caused a kerfuffle on the streets of southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region when about 80 of them escaped a farm.

A pilot was rescued by police from an oncoming train in the nick of time from the fuselage of a downed private aircraft making an emergency landing on the tracks in Los Angeles.

Two workers were trapped under rubble when a construction site caved in during a dig in Turkey's Istanbul. One of the workers has been safely rescued from under the rubble, while rescue teams continue their efforts to get to the other.

Children were joyous as snow carved an icy path for them to skate and glide down in their makeshift sleds of plastic water bottles in Turkey’s Eastern Anatolian province of Iğdır.

The windshield of a bus cruising along the streets of Turkey’s Istanbul shattered into a thousand pieces after it crashed into an elderly plane tree. Unfortunately, the tree was damaged during the making of this movie.

The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that it had evacuated 1,461 of its citizens via a military aircraft following protests in Kazakhstan over fuel hikes in which dozens were killed.

Turkish police seized 16,797 coins and pieces of jewelry, most of which dated back to the Byzantine, Roman, Seljuk, and Ottoman eras in the capital Ankara after they conducted a search of a vehicle on their radars. This is reportedly the most prolific bust of artifacts captured in Ankara to date.

Hilarious footage shows holidaymakers enjoying a spot of food as they fan the flames of their barbecue at an altitude of 2,800 meters at a winter resort in the Hakkari province near the Iraqi border.

A deluge of rain and hail descended over the Turkish resort town of Marmaris, as 200 kilograms of rain fell per square meter in 24 hours.

An enraged high school teacher in Turkey’s southern Gaziantep province drew ire as footage of him slapping and kicking a student made the rounds on social media. Legal proceedings have been initiated against the educator.

A devastating blaze swept through a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh as thousands of Muslims were left homeless once more after hundreds of thousands had fled a military crackdown in Myanmar in 2017.

Train cars containing denatured alcohol caught fire early Saturday after the vehicle derailed near the Texas-Oklahoma border as fire crews were dispatched to the scene, authorities reported. After being closed in both directions, the highway was reopened late Saturday afternoon.

The total number of people detained in Kazakhstan since the violent protests began last week has risen to 5,135, the country’s Interior Ministry said on Sunday.In a statement, the ministry said more than 1,300 security personnel have been injured while protecting the public order.

Thousands of people marched on Sunday in eastern Turkey to honor fallen Ottoman soldiers who fought in the Battle of Sarikamis during World War I. Tens of thousands of Ottoman soldiers, led by Enver Pasha, died during the the battle that lasted from from December 1914 to January 1915, when they launched an attack in the eastern province of Kars to liberate Ottoman territories from Russian occupation.

The death toll from heavy snow in a famous hill station near Pakistan’s capital Islamabad rose to 23, as rescue workers backed by army troops struggled overnight to scrap snow off the roads, officials said on Sunday.Massive snowfall over the past three days buried Murree, a scenic hill station located some 65 Kilometers (40 miles) off Islamabad, and its adjoining valleys under a thick layer of snow, blocking roads, knocking off power, and sending panicked tourists scurrying for shelter.

Police checkpoints have been set up at all entrances and exits of Nur Sultan, the capital of Kazakhstan. In the capital, security measures have been increased due to the "high danger alert" declared throughout the country. All official government buildings and social facilities, especially the Presidential Palace Akorda in Nur Sultan have been guarded day and night by special operations soldiers.

Archeologists have unearthed several sarcophagi and historical artifacts from the ancient Roman era during excavations in Ordu on the Black Sea coast of Turkey.

Various shots from frost on trees and snow-covered fields during extreme winter weather at Gurpinar district of Van, Turkiye on January 06, 2022.