Pintapin, an online hotel reservation service, now allows foreign tourists to book rooms using international credit cards. Due to banking restrictions placed on Iran, international credit cards…

In eastern Iran, in a tiny village in Khorasan Razavi Province, windmills that are over a thousand years old still stand, and thanks to the commitment of a single individual, they still turn.

Best films by viewers’ choice in the last 19 editions of Fajr International Film Festival (FIFF) have been collected in a DVD package, which will be unveiled on Friday at the Cinematograph…

After 12 years of persistence, theater director Ali Pouyan, 63, a recipient of the first degree of art certificate from the Evaluation Council of the Culture and Islamic Guidance Ministry, has…

The Japan Cultural Month opened in Tabriz, capital of the northwestern East Azarbaijan Province, on January 16 with a concert by the Japanese drum band SAI, in the presence of the Japanese…

The second edition of Globe International Silent Film Festival (GISFF) will be held from April 3-5 at Michigan State University in the US.

GISFF is run by a group of Iranian film buffs of…

Two field guides, one on the fish species in the inland waters of Iran, and the other on spiders and scorpions in the country, have recently been published by Iranshenasi Publication.

France has claimed the position of the country least trusted by its people, according to an influential survey by the world’s largest public relations firm.

A thumping 72% of the French…

A Bangladesh court on Monday sentenced 26 people, including a politician and three officials of an elite security battalion, to death in the grisly, politically motivated killings of seven people…

The United Nations’ humanitarian aid official in Yemen said the civilian death toll in the nearly two-year conflict has reached 10,000, with 40,000 others wounded.

The Office for the…

At least eight policemen have been killed in an attack on a security checkpoint in Egypt’s Western Desert. Egypt’s Interior Ministry said two of the assailants were also killed when forces at the…

On Friday morning in Moscow, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov signaled willingness to work with the incoming Trump administration on a variety of issues from Syria peace talks to…

Europe’s destiny lies in its own hands, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday in response to comments from US president-elect, Donald Trump, who said in a newspaper interview he believed…

Turkish police were questioning on Tuesday the suspected terrorist who slaughtered 39 people on New Year’s night at an Istanbul nightclub, after capturing him in a raid on a residential area of…

The search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 was officially suspended Monday morning after three years of searching for the airplane thought to have gone down somewhere over the Indian Ocean.

Japan's Inpex Corp said on Monday it had agreed with Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. (ADNOC) to extend its holdings in the Satah and Umm Al-Dalkh offshore oilfields in Abu Dhabi by about 25 years. The…

Sending a forceful message to Israel’s prime minister and the incoming US administration of Donald Trump, dozens of countries called on Israel and the Palestinians to revive work toward achieving…

US president-elect, Donald Trump, aims to replace Obamacare with a plan that would envisage “insurance for everybody”, he said in an interview with the Washington Post published on Sunday night.…

A top Egyptian court has issued a final ruling rejecting a government plan to transfer two uninhabited Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia in a deal that had provoked outrage among Egyptians and…

The International Monetary Fund on Monday lifted its forecast for US economic growth in 2017 and 2018 based on president-elect Donald Trump’s tax cut and spending plans, but said this would…

The Central Bank of Iran has ordered all banks to finalize their annual financial statements in accordance with new standards by the end of the current fiscal year (March 20, 2017), said Abbas…

The National Association of Iranian Leasing Companies has again called on the Central Bank of Iran to revise its current policy regarding the interest rate of leasing contracts. At present,…

The Central Bank of Iran has communicated to all banks and credit institutions the criteria for the implementation of a foreign exchange directive originally issued by First Vice President Es’haq…

A year has passed since Iran's nuclear accord with world powers has been implemented and the governor of Central Bank of Iran believes the deal has paved the way for financial institutions outside…

Tehran Stock Exchange’s main index added 11 points or 0.01% to end Monday trade at 79,084.2.

More than 1.7 billion shares valued at $98.5 million changed hands for the day.

National…