Residents of Baghdad rushed to have snowball fights or take photographs Tuesday as the Iraqi capital woke carpeted in white by only its second snowfall in a century. The last recorded snowfall in the city was in 2008, but it was a quick and mostly slushy affair -- and prior to that, it had...

Attacks on reconstruction missions in Afghanistan have left more than 2,200 people dead and almost 3,000 wounded since 2002, according to an official US report released Tuesday. The "Human Cost" report came as at least five people, including civilians, were killed in a blast in the first...

Thousands of Kenyans on Tuesday gathered to mourn the country's longest-serving leader, the hardline Daniel arap Moi, as a week of mourning climaxed with a state funeral. Moi, whose 24-year rule saw Kenya become a one-party state where critical voices were ruthlessly crushed, died on...

At least 13 Rohingya refugees died early Tuesday when their boat capsized near Saint Martin’s island in the Bay of Bengal, said an official. "We have initially come to know that all the dead are members of the Rohingya community living in the refugee camps,” local administration chief...