A rescue excavation in Khorramabad airport area in Lorestan Province has led to the discovery of a stone temple, along with clay statuettes, bronze dishes, ancient potteries and graves containing…
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The charity “Omid-e Bikaran” (literally infinite hope) to serve underprivileged sections in Tehran under the auspices of State Welfare Organization (SWO) was officially inaugurated at the…
Nearly 90% of women do not remarry after divorce, while 90% of men do. At present there are six million women in the country who are divorced and have remained single. Reports say around one in…
Top 10 medicine students from the national medical schools will be accepted in the traditional medicine specialty course without having to take the competitive exam, said Dr. Abdollah Bahrami, an…
Financial constraints have stalled the completion of Tehran’s Mosalla, said Hossein Tala, MP, after a visit to the project.
Tehran MPs visited the Mosalla grounds to study the problems…
A comprehensive bill for the elderly is undergoing final revision and will be sent to the Ministry of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Affairs, for approval.
Experts from the World Health Organization and South Korea on Saturday downplayed concerns about the MERS virus spreading further within the country, which recorded its 14th fatality and 12 new…
A man set to have the world’s first head transplant has told Sky News the operation does not worry him, adding: “We are making science.”
Russian Valery Spiridonov suffers from a muscle…
Major errors during surgery are rare, but preventable mistakes still happen in hospitals throughout the United States, a new review finds. In about 1 in 100,000 surgeries, doctors make a “wrong…
Two Saudis who sexually harassed two Iranian teenagers have been sentenced to 1,000 lashes and four years in prison, a security official said. The Iranians boys were on their way home after…
Annually 400,000 square meters of handmade Persian carpets are produced in West Azarbaijan Province, where 110,000 individuals are involved in carpet weaving.
There are 17 types of carpets…
The dismal state of Iran’s water bodies leave only one bleak conclusion to be drawn: The country is heading for an unprecedented water crisis.
Nearly 100 wetlands and lakes are suffering…
Airplanes release a significant amount of CO2 with each takeoff and touchdown, and the EPA recently announced plans to regulate greenhouse gas emissions by the airline industry.
But…
Iran’s Tang-e Sayyad National Park has been inscribed on UNESCO’s List of Biosphere Reserves, making it the country’s 11th UNESCO-listed biosphere reserve.
Campers responsible for the wildfire that devoured over 100 hectares of forest in Ilam Province last week have been arrested, deputy commander of protection unit at Forest, Range and Watershed…
Previous research has hailed peanuts and nuts for their health benefits. Now, a new study supports such research, finding that consuming these foods may protect against death from numerous…
People who have been through a divorce are as healthy as couples in stable marriages, says a new study. “The upheaval of divorce, separation and remarriage might not be as bad for health as is…
Iran has the world’s highest rate of nose jobs per capita. Some Iranians who see this as an epidemic have launched a humorous campaign: “Save the Iranian nose from becoming extinct!”
The British Council backtracked on a statement attributed to the UK cultural and educational organization challenging the validity of IELTS certificates of Iranian students applying for a UK visa…
T he administrative rank of Ardebil Province Tribal Affairs Office is to be elevated to a level one service provider, in an effort to improve the quality of facilities allocated to the provincial…
Pakistan has ordered the charity Save the Children to leave the country, with an official accusing the NGO of “anti-Pakistan” activities.
Police have sealed off their offices in Islamabad…
Students are competing in university entrance exams for admission to undergraduate courses in state universities from June 11-13 across the country. The Iranian University Entrance Exam also…
On the 82nd day of spring when the weather is relatively warm in many parts of the country, fresh snowfall covered Kelardasht, Chalus county, in the northern Mazandaran Province. Extreme…
There are at least 5,000 beggars in Tehran who earn more than $100 a day, according to a recent national survey. Only 10 to 15 % of them are really in need. They are probably eating better…
Nearly 150,000 Londoners are working two jobs to make a living, a figure that’s risen 50% over the past decade, the Evening Standard reports.
