A taxi drove into a crowd of pedestrians near Moscow's Red Square on Saturday, injuring seven people including two Mexicans in the city for the soccer World Cup which Russia is hosting.

A mother monkey appeared to snap last week at Beijing Zoo when her baby climbed onto a rocking horse.

Italian firefighters used their inventiveness and patience to save three kittens trapped in a plastic pipe. The tiny creatures had fallen into a plastic pipe over a meter and a half long and a few centimeters wide, but firefighters managed to get them out safely using strings and smaller pipes. Some children who were playing nearby had heard the kittens meowing and alerted their parents before emergency services came to the rescue. The rescue has lasted about an hour but the fire-fighters, after...

U.N. refugee agency special envoy Angelina Jolie visited Mosul, Iraq's major northern city which Iraqi forces took back last year from Daesh. Jolie met families from western Mosul and walked through bombed-out streets.

Turkish citizens living in Georgia, cast their ballots for Turkey's presidential and general elections in Tbilisi, on June 17, 2018.

Footage of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan playfully giving a treat to a small dog has gone viral on social media.

A missing Indonesian woman was found inside the belly of a giant python after locals captured the swollen snake in close proximity to where she had vanished as she was tending to her vegetable garden.

The first boat in a naval convoy carrying a total of 629 rescued migrants arrived in the Spanish port of Valencia on Sunday, ending a gruelling nine-day sea voyage, but leaving wide open a fierce debate in Europe about how to handle immigration.

Footage shows clashes between forces of the Arab alliance, which is led by Saudi Arabia, and the Houthi forces in Yemen's al-Durayhmi.

Three children can be seen torturing a puppy. The terrifying footage shows the children continue horrendous acts as the small dog yelps and tries to flee.

Muslims around the world get together to celebrate Eid al-Fitr marking the end of Ramadan.

The giant panda Shuang Shuang, who was born in Mexico City's zoo, turned 31 on Friday and is considered to be the longest-lived giant panda outside of China, according to the Mexican authorities. Shuang Shuang was born on June 15, 1987, and is the sixth of the seven offspring of Ying Ying and Bei Bei, which China gave to Mexico in 1975 and who are considered to be the most prolific panda bear couple outside of the country, said the secretariat of Mexico's local environmental department.

Civilians in the Aegean town of Bodrum are leaving food and water in the places where wild boars have been spotted in order to prevent them from coming to the city center. Nearly 20 small and big boars have been seen coming to the Konacik neighborhood to find food, prompting local residents to take special measures.

The Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) seized a large amount of weapons belonging to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in an operation against the terror group in Turkey's southeastern province of Hakkari.

Football superstar Mohamed Salah's birthday was celebrated with confetti and a cake topped with a golden boot.

Pakistanis welcomed Eid al Fitr with prayers and sweets in Pakistan's Karachi.

Minutes after plunging two metres (6.5 ft) to the ground as his mother gave birth, baby giraffe Twiga was frolicking round his pen as the newest arrival at Belgium's Planckendael Zoo. "They fall down two metres because mother giraffes don't lie down," said zookeeper Sil Waumans. "It is always a scary moment to see whether they walk afterwards, but after 20 minutes he was already on his legs." Twiga, already two metres high, is named after the Giraffe Conservation Foundation's Twiga Tracker initi...

Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo curled in a sizzling late free kick to strike the first hat-trick of the 2018 World Cup and grab his side a point in a thrilling 3-3 draw with Spain on Friday (June 15) as the Group B blockbuster lived up to the hype.

A dragon boat race kicked off to celebrate the Duanwu Festival in Xinyu City of Jiangxi Province in east China on Saturday, with about 1,200 people participating. The participants came from various villages in Xinyu City. About 800 people working in other cities returned to their native villages especially for the race. Dragon boat racing in Xinyu City has a history of over 1,000 years. In 2011, it was listed as a provincial intangible cultural heritage of Jiangxi Province.

A group of eight one-year-old pandas joined together for a fierce and furry football "match" at the Shenshuping Panda Base in southwest China's Sichuan Province on Thursday. Instead of competing intensely, to be the winner like the footballers at the ongoing World Cup in Russia would do, the chubby creatures did not care at all about dribbling the ball or scoring goals once they entered the arena.