Heavy rainstorms have been battering Beijing since Monday, with the rainfall impacting many parts of the Chinese capital. The city's observatory resumed its yellow alert, the second-level of Beijing's four-tier-color-coded warning system, for rainstorms on Tuesday morning after increasing it from a blue alert overnight.

A blob of hot volcanic lava struck an ocean tour boat just off the Big Island of Hawaii on Monday (July 16), injuring nearly two dozen people in the worst casualty incident to date from the ongoing eruption of the Kilauea Volcano. Authorities said the chaos was caused when a huge steam-driven explosion, caused by molten rock mixing with seawater as it poured from the shoreline, sent a 'lava bomb' crashing through the roof of the boat and into the vessel's seating area.

Argentinian soccer legend Diego Maradona expressed his support for the rightful Palestinian struggle against Israeli oppression and occupation during a meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the Russian capital, uttering the words “I'm Palestinian,” as he declared he stands by the righteous Palestinian cause.

A special choreography performed by 251 Turkish Quran hafizs, or memorizers of the Muslim holy book, marking the 2nd anniversary of the July 15 defeated coup bid went viral on social media platforms.

Argentinian soccer legend Diego Maradona expressed his support for the rightful Palestinian struggle against Israeli oppression and occupation during a meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the Russian capital, uttering the words “I'm Palestinian,” as he declared he stands by the righteous Palestinian cause.

Various aerial shots of debris of the buildings after Assad Regime's airstrikes and ground attacks to the Nawa district of Daraa, Syria on July 15, 2018.

Chinese artist Nut Brother can point to some success from his Beijing exhibit that used 10,000 bottles of yellowish water from the small county of Xiaohaotu in northwestern Shaanxi province to raise awareness of contaminated rural ground water, although it did not go down so well with Beijing authorities.

Palestinian children are seen before they enter classrooms outside "Itarat School," the only school left in the Khan al-Ahmar region of Jerusalem. Palestinian children start 2018/2019 school year earlier due to Israel threatening to demolish their school. The students lined up on Monday in the courtyard, singing the Palestinian anthem as officials attended.

Turkish military and Free Syrian Army (FSA) continued sweep and clear activities in Syria's northwestern Afrin region.Teams of experts locate the explosives, planted by YPG/PKK terrorists, via detectors on the farmlands and the roadsides in Afrin, which was cleared of the terrorists on March 18, as part of Turkey's Operation Olive Branch.

At least 19 Syrian children evacuated from Eastern Ghouta received a certificate on Sunday for memorizing the Holy Quran. They have been relocated to Syria's northern city of Al-Bab, liberated from the Daesh terrorist group last year in Turkey's Operation Euphrates Shield.

US President Donald Trump meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Finland.

World Cup victory celebrations were marred by violence as French fans started throwing flare at the police and broke the windshields of the cars on the iconic Champs Elysees avenue in Paris.

An airplane flying over the US state of Pennsylvania towed a banner calling for the extradition of Fetullah terror organization (FETÖ) leader to Turkey. The banners also read “Gülen wanted for 251 innocent lives,” and “Extradite Gülen, make him answer for his crimes!”

Turkey and Pakistan signed an agreement on the purchase for 30 of Turkey's T129 Advanced Attack and Tactical Reconnaissance Helicopters. The T129 ATAK Multirole Combat Helicopter, developed by TAI, has been optimized for specific hot and high-performance requirements of the Turkish Armed Forces.

Historical Research Foundation staff builds boats with contemporary technology of B.C. 600, without using any nails in Urla district of Izmir, Turkey.

A tragic accident at a newly-opened amusement park in Pakistan's capital Karachi killed a 12-year-old child and left 25 others injured. All of the park's attractions were imported to Karachi from China, according to reports.

Hundreds of migrants that have been blocked on two ships off the coast of Italy were finally allowed to disembark at the Sicilian port of Pozzallo in the early hours of Monday morning.

The 12 boys of the "Wild Boars" soccer team thanked rescures as they recovered along with their coach from their ordeal and are set to be discharged on Thursday from a hospital in the northern town of Chiang Rai.

Indonesian villagers armed with knives, hammers and clubs slaughtered 292 crocodiles in revenge for the death of a man killed by a crocodile at a breeding farm, an official said. Photographs released by Antara news agency showed bloodied carcasses of the crocodiles in a large pile in the Sorong district of the eastern Indonesian province of West Papua.

Aerial footage shows the camp where Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETÖ) ringeader Fetullah Gülen lives in Pennslyvania's Saylorsburg village in the U.S.