Behnam Daheshpour Charity Organization will hold its annual New Year festival in support of cancer patients February 14-17 at Talash Cultural-Sports Complex in Tehran. The festival has been held…

Iran Legal Medicine Organization (ILMO) has plans to collect DNA samples from people working in hazardous and risky jobs. 

 “DNA profiling is usually for two main reasons: to help…

The HPV vaccine, which protects against several strains of the human papillomavirus, shows potential for preventing new spots of skin cancer from popping up in people who have had skin cancer in…

Professor Hossein Farhady, applied linguist and professor at Istanbul Yeditepe University has presented a model of Learning Oriented Assessment (LOA) to enhance the process of learning rather than…

A tunnel collapse killed two workers building a new station for Qom Province metro network, news outlets reported on Thursday. The fatal accident happened when a concrete cladding on a tunnel fell…

Khuzestan Province's top environment official has renewed the Department of Environment's calls for changing a regulation that allows municipalities to collect pollution tax.

Addressing a…

The Chinese city of Nanjing is getting a Vertical Forest, a set of two buildings stylized with around 1,100 trees and a combination of over 2,500 shrubs and plants. But it's not all about how it…

Urmia Lake will most likely fail to reach an ecological balance by 2023 due to the drying up of funds for related projects, the head of the Urmia Lake Restoration Program said.

Speaking at…

A majority of Americans oppose US President Donald Trump's plan to eliminate environmental regulations that combat climate change, according to a new poll, underscoring skepticism about his oft-…

A water transfer project aimed at restoring the imperiled Shadegan Wetland in Khuzestan Province is expected to be complete by mid-June, said a top environment figure. 

Protected under…

Volunteers in New Zealand are racing to rescue survivors after more than 400 pilot whales beached themselves.

About 300 stranded whales died overnight at Farewell Spit, on the South Island…

The annual Fajr Film Festival (FFF) came to an end on Thursday at Tehran’s Milad Tower by awarding the best of cinematic productions in the past year. 

After a hiatus of six years, the 7th National Sculpture Biennial will be held later this year from September 6-October 22 in Tehran.

 The 6th edition of the biennial was held in 2011…

The University of Neyshabur in northeastern Khorasan Razavi Province, is hosting the first conference on ‘Turquoise: Industry and Culture,’ from May 2-4.

March 5 is the last date for…

A Muslim woman won an appeal before a Berlin-Brandenburg court on Thursday and is set to receive nearly €9,000 after she was rejected from a teaching job due to her headscarf.

The Berlin-…

A session of South Africa’s Parliament convened for a keynote address by President Jacob Zuma descended into chaos on Thursday, as far-left lawmakers brawled with orderlies after interrupting the…

Hungary announced a new plan to house all refugees in shipping containers clustered into camps along its borders on Thursday. 

The measure will affect all migrants waiting for asylum…

In the face of the ongoing terrorism threat in France, Paris’s iconic monument, the Eiffel Tower, will undergo a massive facelift to tighten security by next autumn. Heightened security measures…

President Donald Trump reaffirmed Washington’s “One China” policy in his first conversation with Xi Jinping, an apparent effort to ease tensions after angering Beijing by questioning a major plank…

A Malaysian ship carrying 2,300 tons of aid for tens of thousands of persecuted Rohingya Muslims arrived in Yangon where it was met by Buddhist protesters.

Health workers and activists…

Romania’s Justice Minister Florin Iordache announced his resignation on Thursday, taking responsibility for a controversial decree on corruption that was repealed after it sparked mass protests.…

A former prime minister, Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo, was elected Somalia›s president on Wednesday, declaring a new «era of unity» as he took on the daunting task of bringing the long-chaotic…

Iran’s Mahan Air will start operating direct flights to Barcelona as of June, Eduardo Lopez Busquets, Spain’s ambassador to Iran, announced. 

“We are also trying to launch direct…

British MPs look set to approve a bill on Wednesday empowering Prime Minister Theresa May to start Brexit negotiations, in a major step toward Britain leaving the European Union.

Seven…

The global oil market is on track to be “relatively balanced” this year and next, according to the Energy Information Administration’s Short-Term Energy Outlook Report released Tuesday. That is…