Chicago residents took to social media to share videos of the snowfall that swept over the U.S. Midwest on Thursday (February 8) and Friday (February 9). Videos show a time-lapse of snow piling up and down on a city balcony, a boy playing in the snow, and a residential road covered in thick snow. The winter storm swept across the northern Midwest dumping up to nine inches (23 cm) of snow on Chicago and snarling hundreds of flights as it rolled east to threaten New York state and New England.

Locals from Idlib's Der Ballout, Syria, cheer as Turkish military strikes PKK/YPG terror positions.

Syria and Russian airstrikes in opposition-held areas have killed 230 civilians in the past week in some of the conflict's worst violence that may also constitute war crimes, the top United Nations human rights official said on Saturday.

The footage taken from Turkey's southern Hatay province on the Syrian border shows Turkish Army shelling on PYD/PKK targets in Syria's Afrin as part of Operation Olive Branch.

A puppy came wondering home in Texas, U.S., with a peanut can stuck on her head after missing for several days. The owner was able to pry the can loose from the puppy's head. After giving her a bath and some food, the puppy was back to her normal, excited self.

A crane operator in Turkey's Alanya did not let his work stop him from praying.

A penguin family put on traditional Chinese garments and walked on a street Saturday to send their best Chinese Spring Festival wishes to passers-by in Harbin City, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province.

A Turkish military convoy was welcomed into Idlib as it entered the de-escalation zone to establish safety and security. Idlib locals cheered and chanted takbir.

Police in Turkey's southern province of Adana seized 250,000 drug pills that were being transported to the PKK/YPG terrorist organization in Syria's Afrin.

Schools are closed and hundreds of flights are canceled as a winter storm that's forecast to drop about a foot of snow created treacherous driving conditions in Chicago on Friday.

A farmer trying to save his cows that had stumbled upon train tracks was hit by an oncoming train.

Incredible CCTV footage shows the moment a large chunk of snow suddenly slid off a roof as a train comes into the station in Russia, crashing down onto the carriages and the platform, nearly wiping out a commute waiting on the platform.

In a statement, the military said the Turkish Armed Forces had destroyed 36 PKK/KCK/PYD-YPG and Daesh terrorist targets and "neutralized" 79 more terrorists in early Saturday airstrikes.

Syrian anti-aircraft fire shot down an Israeli jet on Saturday, the military said, after Israel intercepted an Iranian drone launched from Syria and struck an Iranian target there. Footage from northern Israel showed what appeared to be white aircraft debris scattered on the ground.

Mohammed is a water carrier in Nigeria, which is one of the African countries severely affected by drought. Thirty-two year old Mohammed's biggest dream is to have a tap in his home.

60-year-old Um Ammar, who lives in Iraq's Mosul, had to bury her children in her home. “Five individuals from my family were killed during clashes. I buried them all with my own hands," she said. Ammar is not alone in her tragedy. Other Mosul residents also had to bury family members and neighbors in the basement of their houses due to security concerns in the city.

The Winter Olympics officially gets underway with the Opening Ceremony in Pyeongchang, South Korea at 11.00 GMT on Friday (February 9), with a timelapse video showing darkness falling over the stadium.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's younger sister, Kim Yo Jong, and NorthKorea's nominal head of state Kim Yong Nam, arrived in Pyeongchang via the train on Friday (February 9) ahead of the Olympics' opening ceremony. Kim Yo Jong is the first member of North Korea's ruling family to visit the South, while Kim Yong Nam is the most senior North Korean official to make a cross-border trip. They flew into Seoul earlier in the day before taking the train to Peyongchang.

The Syrian opposition-held area Eastern Ghouta of Damascus has suffered its bloodiest week since 2015 as a result of government bombardment, with 229 people killed in the last four days, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Friday. "During the past four days 229 people were killed in Eastern Ghouta villages, including 58 children and 43 women," Rami Abdulrahman, the head of the Britain-based war monitor, told Reuters.

A rescue dog that took part in the operation to search for survivors in the rubble of Taiwan quake has received exceptional praise from the Taiwanese public for his 'heroic act' after he found a survivor. This is the first time Tie Hsiung, which directly translated as "Iron Hero" in mandarin, joins a search mission. The four-year-old labrador flew in to reinforce the search mission from Taichung City shortly after a deadly magnitude 6 quake rocked the coastal city of Hualien. It was Tie Hsiung t...