Footage shows Pakistani President Mamnoon Hussain arriving to watch the armed forces parade as nuclear-capable arsenal, tanks and jets are displayed to mark the 78th Republic Day of Pakistan.

At least one person was killed when a man took hostages in a supermarket in the southwestern French town of Trebes on Friday. The station reported that the hostage-taker has claimed allegiance to the terrorist organization Daesh. Footage shows several police and SWAT teams surrounding the French supermarket in Trebes, France.

Footage shows a snake charmer putting on a live show when his pet takes it too far and starts to tighten its grip, beginning to strangle him. The man slowly chokes and shows signs of distress while the crowd watching by thought it was all part of the show. People rushed to his help and freed him from the deadly python.

Top U.S. officials, including Maj. Gen. James Jarrard, head of the special operations element of the U.S.-led coalition, visited Syria's northern town of Manbij. U.S. forces have bases in Manbij, which is occupied by the PYD/YPG terror organization.

The Turkish Armed Forces discovered one of the Kurdistan workers' Party (PKK)'s so-called headquarters during search operations in Syria's Afrin. Footage shows the rooms of the terror base which contains photographs of terrorist ringleader Abdullah Öcalan.

Taiwanese cyclist Jacky Chen, who began a world tour in 2015, has arrived in the Turkish capital of Ankara.

At least 37 civilians were killed in Syria's eastern Ghouta after regime forces attacked a refugee shelter, White Helmets civil defence group says. Footage emerges of incendiary weapons being used in eastern Ghouta in Syria, reportedly killing dozens of people, some of whom were burned to death.

Footage shows a pride of lions outnumbered and surrounded as they are forced into the water by dozens of buffalos in South Africa's Sabi Sabi National Park.

Turkish vets operated on a stray dog suffering from a two kilogram tumor in its abdomen and chest. The veterinarians successfully moved the tumor and are going to start post-operation treatment.

A man forced a dog he tied behind his motorcycle to run for miles on a road in Turkey's Kilis. Watch as this heartless man drags the poor exhausted dog until he can't run anymore.

Rohingya refugees are facing an extreme shortage of food ahead of the monsoon season in Bangladesh. Refugees are seen waiting to collect water as they receive aid and supplies to brace for a heavy monsoon season.

The 19-month-old giant panda twins Qin Qin and Ai Ai are living independently under the care of keepers as they were just separated from their mother, according to the Guangzhou Changlong Wild Animal Zoo recently. They started to eat fresh bamboo leaves and bamboo shoots when they were 9 months old and were getting all their nutrients from food when they were 18 months old.

Australian rescuers were racing against time to save dozens of short-finned pilot whales on Friday after more than 150 of the migrating mammals got stranded on the country's west coast. More than half of the beached whales had died while authorities and volunteers were trying to save about 50 still alive on the beach and a further 25 in shallow waters.

A Turkish military training aircraft crashed in the country's central province of Nevşehir on Thursday night. Footage shows fire brigades and rescue units investigating the crash site. The wreckage of the military plane and the soldier's body were found at the site.

A senior Kurdish citizen touted Turkey's Olive Branch operation, which liberated the city center of Syria's northwestern Afrin region on Sunday. “Thank God. We are rid of those dogs. We are saved from the PKK/YPG. Our friends, the Turks, the Muslims have arrived," he said.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan received athletes with Down syndrome at the Presidential Complex in Ankara on Thursday.

Police scuffled with protesters in Paris and fired teargas and water cannon in the western city of Nantes as strikes broke out across France on Thursday in a challenge to President Emmanuel Macron's economic reforms. Train conductors, teachers and air traffic controllers walked out to join more than 150 mostly peaceful marches in cities and towns - the first time public sector workers have joined rail staff in protests since Macron came to office in May

The main suspect in last week's attempted assassination of Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah died of his wounds after a gun battle on Thursday with Hamas-run security forces in the Gaza Strip, a security official said.Another gunman and two security officers were also killed in the shootout, the official said.

Mohamed Bzeek has been a foster father to nearly 100 terminally ill children with nowhere else to go for over two decades. Bzeek says his aim is to make the dying children feel loved and give them a home, and that his work is a way of spreading “the truth of Islam.”

UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Cate Blanchett met with Rohingya refugees at Bangladesh's Kutupalong Camp. The famous actor shared spoke with the refugees about their concerns.