Turkish Parliament Speaker Binali Yıldırım met with Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani in Istanbul, Turkey on November 29, 2018.

A new street sign bearing the name “Malcolm X Caddesi” (street) was placed along the street near the site of the future embassy in the capital's Cankaya district.In October the Ankara city council unanimously accepted the name change honoring the U.S. Muslim leader and civil rights activist.Malcolm X was born in 1925, and assassinated on Feb. 21, 1965 in New York City, after a relatively short life of immense struggle for the rights of black people.

UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock spoke at a press conference held at the Yemeni capital Sanaa on November 29, 2018.

The Muslim world has to develop its own sense of confidence and ambition, Yusuf Islam, world-famous musician, lyricist and educator, said on November 29, 2018.'It is hard to find a Muslim country producing its own airplanes, cars or televisions,' said Islam, also known as Cat Stevens, speaking at the World Halal Summit 2018 in Istanbul.

Zookeepers are struggling to get close enough to the mother gorilla “Mayani' to determine the gender of her newborn in the Antwerp Zoo, Belgium.

Heavy rain caused road collapse in Rumeli Kavağı neighborhood of Istanbul's Sarıyer district, Turkey on November 29, 2018.

Thousands of migrants from Central America have been waiting for days in a makeshift shelter at Benito Juarez Sports Unit in Tijuana, Mexico near the border with the US.

A Russian man's split second decision saved the life of his friend as he dragged the woman to safety as an out-of-control car came speeding their way as they strolled on a sidewalk.

A Mississippi pastor wanted to get creative for his sermon on Sunday and made a flying entrance for his speech.

A massive albino boa constrictor mauled its owner's hand as feeding time went horribly wrong. The pet snake sank ifs fangs into the man's hand after he dangled a dead rabbit in front of it and refused to loosen his grip.

An American school principal in Qatar converted to Islam in a public ceremony with his students present, reciting the proclamation of faith over a microphone as crowds cheered.

Turkey's Ölüdeniz Sea in Butterflies Valley turned into turquois colour in Fethiye on Wednesday.

Fresh footage circulated online shows that the sister of a 15-year old Syrian refugee who was attacked has also been targeted by bullies. The video is said to have been recorded at Almondbury Community School in Huddersfield, U.K.

Three construction workers were killed after being trapped under concrete rubble from a road project in northwestern Turkey, officials said on Wednesday. The workers were among several who remain buried under rubble when a concrete block fell on them during ongoing construction of the Gebze-Kocaeli section of the Northern Marmara Motorway.

Police used tear gas to break up protesters demanding the government to increase education spending in Bogota on November 28, 2018.

'The UN system must be reformed,' said Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan at the 34th Standing Committee for Economic and Commercial Cooperation of the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation (COMCEC) meeting in Istanbul. Erdoğan has long advocated reforming the structure of the UN Security Council, using the motto: 'The world is bigger than five,' and has criticized the five permanent Council members -- China, France, Russia, the U.K., and the U.S.

Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani meets with Ali Erbas, the head of Turkey's Religious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet) on November 28, 2018 in Doha, Qatar.

A young boy upstaged Pope Francis on Wednesday, escaping from his mother and running onto the papal podium at a general audience, tugging on the hand of a Swiss guardsman and playing behind the pontiff's chair.The boy's mother briefly spoke to the pope as she tried to pull the child away, saying that he was mute. Pope Francis told her to let him carry on playing.'This child cannot speak. He is mute. But he can communicate,' the pope told hundreds of pilgrims. 'And he has something that got me th...

Footage shows the terrifying moment a worker was left hanging from the scaffolding at a Guatemalan port after a massive water crane toppled over.

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman landed in Buenos Aires on Wednesday for the G20 summit, a visit fraught with controversy over the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.