The Persian novella ‘The Sleeping Dragons,’ the first work of teenage author Ali Golestani, has been released in Iran.

In the book published by Afarinegan Publications, Golestani, 14,…

Khorasan Grand Museum in the shrine city of Mashhad, capital of Khorasan Razavi Province, will host an exhibition of Islamic art and civilization for six months.

In 2012, the General…

The first edition of Printmaking Biennial Exhibition at 26 Art Gallery in Tehran opened on Friday, January 20.

The group exhibition features 56 manual prints created by 46 artists. The…

The government in Kazakhstan plans to force internet users to register on websites with their mobile phones if they wish to post comments, the deputy head of the communications and information…

Mobile phone users across the globe are increasingly turning to app-based transactions for their daily tasks according to a new report by a respected application analytics company. 

Iran and Sri Lanka signed a memorandum of understanding to promote technological collaboration. Iran’s vice president for science and technology, Sorena Sattari, met Tuesday with Susil…

The local tech firm Media Pardazesh was announced as the official partner of Huawei for the year 2017 in Iran. 

The announcement was made on Thursday at a press conference held at…

Open markets and global trade have been blamed for job losses over the last decade, but global CEOs say the real culprits are increasingly machines.

The Iranian Hoteliers’ Society has renewed calls for striking down municipal tax, arguing that doing so would help reduce room rates by 35%.

Speaking to ISNA, Jamshid Hamzehzadeh, the…

Islamic Revolution Mostazafan Foundation, one of the largest conglomerates in Iran, will send a team of experts to study the tourism potential of Lark and Hengam islands in the Persian Gulf. “The…

The dossier for Arasbaran Forest in East Azarbaijan Province will be submitted to UNESCO this week, as authorities eye Iran’s second natural site on the coveted World Heritage List.

Last…

The proposed route of the project to transfer water from the Persian Gulf in the south to Kerman and Yazd provinces in central Iran might change if impact assessments conclude that the…

Despite global challenges and threats to tourism—an increase in terror activity, unstable financial and economic situations like Brexit and growing political hostility fueled by the likes of…

Football fans will face “a challenge” when traveling between games at the continent-wide European Championship in 2020, UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin said on Thursday.

The tournament…

Al-Qaeda’s North African affiliate says a group linked to it carried out the suicide attack that killed at least 50 people in northern Mali.

A vehicle packed with explosives detonated at a…

Militants of the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group have destroyed the facade of the Roman Theater, the Tetrapylon architecture complex, in Palmyra, the Syrian state television reported on…

Nearly half a million Syrian refugee children are currently enrolled in schools across Turkey. But despite a more than 50% increase in enrolment since last June, over 40% of children of school-…

A man deliberately drove into a street crowded with pedestrians in Australia’s second-largest city on Friday, killing at least three people and injuring 20 others, police said.

Officials…

West African armies halted an operation in Gambia aimed at installing the country’s new president, Adama Barrow, on Thursday so regional leaders could make one last attempt to convince longtime…

US stealth bombers and drones have carried out airstrikes on suspected IS training camps in Libya and American commanders believe they were successful in destroying the camps.

Donald Trump on Thursday pledged to bring unity to America as he swept into Washington on the eve of the most consequential moment of his life—his inauguration as 45th president of the United…

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation plans to send a high-level delegation to Myanmar’s troubled Rakhine state to assess the plight of the Rohingya Muslim minority, Malaysia said on Thursday.…

Plasco Building, in central Tehran, collapsed on Thursday morning following a major fire in the building, leaving at least 78 people injured. 

The building was evacuated after the fire…

Three earthquakes have hit central Italy in short succession, with tremors felt in the capital, Rome, forcing an evacuation of the underground train system.

The German Research Centre for…

The United States should not allow a delegation from Taiwan to attend the inauguration of US president-elect, Donald Trump, China's Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday, raising a new bone of…