A six-year-old cow in Buri Ram’s Prakhon Chai district miraculously gave birth to quadruplets—two males and two females—fulfilling the long-held dream of its owner's father.

As heating fuel has become out of reach for many Syrians because of the U.S. economic sanctions and its control over key oil fields in the country, farmers in the southern province of Sweida now resort to cow dung as an alternative to survive the harsh winter.