Mohammad al-Bahadli dug into Iraq's hot desert sand with bare hands to reach his father's corpse. "Now he can finally be with our people, our family, in the old cemetery," 49-year-old Bahadli said, as relatives sobbed over the body, wrapped in a shroud. After restrictions were eased for...

Eleven Syrian asylum seekers who were removed from the UK on a charter flight to Spain nine days ago and who were abandoned in the streets of Madrid have all returned to Calais, hoping to reach the UK once again, the Guardian has learned. One of the men who returned to Calais on Friday...

About 50 people are feared dead after an artisanal gold mine flooded in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo after torrential rain, a provincial governor said Saturday. The accident in the makeshift mine occurred on Friday in the town of Kamituga, in South Kivu province, about 270...

Iran’s currency Saturday dropped to its lowest value ever against the dollar, and has seen its value fall by 30% since June amid severe U.S. sanctions imposed on Tehran. Money exchange shops traded the Iranian rial 262,000 for a dollar. The rial had traded at 256,000 to $1 Thursday,...