The Taipei Zoo made birthday cakes and invited fans and admirers to celebrate the fifth birthday of giant panda Yuan Zai on Friday. Yuan Zai's caretaker made the special cakes with her favorite ingredients of water melon, apple and grapes. However, Yuan Zai did not show much interest in the birthday cakes. Instead, she was curious about the birthday cards that were hanging in her enclosure.

The Thai navy carried supplies into a flooded cave where 12 boys and their soccer coach are trapped. Members of Thailand's elite navy SEAL transported the supplies.

A 16-year-old driver in the U.S. state of Minnesota accidentally steered his car head-first into a sinkhole formed in the road around a culvert that swelled after heavy rains in the area, according to local police. Drone footage taken on Tuesday (July 3) and provided by the Renville County Sheriff's Office shows the vehicle stuck vertically in the cavity. A stream of water can be seen running underneath and deployed airbags through the car windows.

Turkish national Musa Sümbül has suffered from psoriasis for over two decades. He is seeking a cure so he can return to normal life, work, and start a family. Sümbül is unable to cure his ailment due to lack of funds, and says that people's negative reactions hurt him deeply.

Footage shows the dramatic capture of a Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) terrorist who was injured in the aftermath of an anti-terror operation carried out by the Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) in Turkey's southwestern province of Şırnak. Three terrorists were killed out of the five that were neutralized after a drone pinpointed their sanctuaries in the Mount Gabar region.

Palestinian protests erupted on Wednesday at the Khan al-Ahmar Bedouin village in the occupied West Bank facing Israeli demolition in what rights groups have condemned as a bid to expand Jewish settlement. Some 180 Bedouin, raising sheep and goats, live in tin and wood shacks in Khan al-Ahmar. It is situated between a major Israeli settlement, Maale Adumim near Jerusalem, and a smaller one to the northeast, Kfar Adumim.

An elderly man was violently struck by a speeding van as he was crossing the street in Turkey's Kahramanmaraş. He was hospitalized in the aftermath of the accident that was caught by a company's surveillance camera.

A team of young footballers trapped in a cave in northern Thailand for 11 days on Wednesday began crash courses in swimming and diving to prepare for their rescue.A group of ten soldiers, led by a military doctor, provided food and medicine to the 12 schoolboys, ages 11 to 16, and a 25-year-old assistant coach. The doctor also assessed their health.The latest video released by the Thai Navy shows the visibly thin children inside the cave wrapped in thermal blankets but upbeat, waving their hands...

Foreign and local tourists visit Pamukkale, a UNESCO World Heritage site, in Denizli, in the Aegean region of Turkey on July 05, 2018. Pamukkale, meaning "cotton castle" in Turkish, is a natural site in Denizli province in southwestern Turkey and attracts visitors throughout the year with its stunning landscape, made up of mineral forests, petrified waterfalls and a series of terraced basins. Pamukkale was added to UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1988 both as cultural and natural site (mixed site)...

“Dried dolma” is renowned globally as a staple of Gaziantep cuisine, which is listed in the gastronomy category of UNESCO's Creative Cities Network. The seeds of capsicums are removed and then the vegetables are threaded and dried in the sun. This technique is also used to for eggplant and zucchini. The dried goods are consumed across Turkey and are also exported overseas.

Various shots of lavender fields in Kuyucak village of Isparta, western Turkey on July 05, 2018.

Two PKK terrorists were arrested while attempting toinfiltrate Syria's northwestern town of Afrin, which was liberated from the YPG/PKKterrorist group earlier this year by the Turkish military and the Free Syrian Army (FSA).The two terrorists had tried to enter the town from a nearby mountainous area but were apprehended by FSA personnel.According to FSA sources, the pair -- one of whom is reportedly a Turkish national -- were in possession of guns with silencers and improvised explosive devices...

Ambulances normally save lifes, but this time it caused an accident and left five wounded. Security cameras show a three-vehicle crash involving an ambulance in Turkey's southeastern province of Adıyaman.

This video shows exactly why it's a smart idea to wear a helmet when riding a motorcycle. The motorcycle driver speeds up to pass the truck, losing his balance and falling right under the truck's wheels. Luckily, the helmet prevented the man's head from being crushed.

Footage captured the horrific moment when a man in Turkey's Adana province repeatedly hit his ground-bound dying horse using a whip. Unable to get up, the helpless animal suffers as it struggles to drag the heavy load on its harness.

People gathered at US Immigration and Customs Office in San Francisco set up tents in front of the building to protest the immigration policies of the US administration on July 04, 2018.

Israeli security forces attacked Palestinians as they tried to prevent them from destroying their tents and sheds with bulldozers in the Khan al-Ahmar village in east Jerusalem on Wednesday. For years, the Israeli government has tried to dismantle the Abu al-Nawwar community to make way for its massive E1 settlement project in East Jerusalem. Israeli authorities seek to expel some 10,000 Bedouin residents of the E1 zone, which sits on roughly 15 square kilometers of land northeast of Jerusalem, ...

Flamingos are seen at the Seyfe Lake in central Kirsehir province of Turkey on July 05, 2018.

Mevlut Bengi, a village grocer in eastern Turkey was found dead on June 26, tied from his hands to a utility pole after he had been shot in the head.

With more rain coming, rescuers are racing against time to pump out water from a flooded cave before they can extract 12 boys and their soccer coach with minimum risk.