People who donate a book to the only public library of Deh Kheir Village, in southern Tehran Province, will be given a free ticket to tour the Iranian capital Tehran. Rajabali Khosroabadi, the…

The parliament's tourism and cultural heritage group has proposed the formation of a guild for investors participating in restoration of historical buildings.

Jabbar Kouchakizadeh, a…

Only time will tell how US president-elect Donald Trump’s policies will affect the daily lives of Americans. What we can see immediately, however, is how his policies are affecting certain aspects…

Mario Soares, former Portugal president and prime minister, has died at age 92. Soares was a central figure in the country’s return to democracy in the 1970s after decades of rightist dictatorship…

US president-elect, Donald Trump, said on Saturday that “only stupid people or fools” would dismiss closer ties with Russia, and he seemed unswayed after his classified briefing on an intelligence…

The largest armed US military brigade to be deployed to Europe since the end of the Cold War arrived on Saturday at a port in northern Germany, military officials said.

On Sunday, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim met the Premier of Kurdistan Regional Government Nechirvan Barzani in Erbil to discuss a wide range of issues.

Yildirim is expected to…

A South Korean Buddhist monk is in critical condition after setting himself on fire during a mass protest against the impeached President Park Geun-Hye, officials said on Sunday.

Ivory Coast’s president said a deal was reached on Saturday to end a two-day army mutiny that renewed security concerns in the world’s top cocoa producer and Africa’s fastest-growing economy.

Beijing has challenged Washington to explain its own global spying activities following US media reports alleging that China is using two Chinese hotels as spy centers, describing the reports as a…

Two Iranian graphic designers have won awards at a graphic competition in the US.

Posters by Mehdi Mahdian and Touraj Saberivand received awards in the poster section of ‘Graphis 2017,’…

‘Iraj, the Singing Genius of Iran,’ a book on the life and works of the acclaimed traditional Persian singer, will soon be brought out.

Author Ali Mohammad Khorshiddoust has compiled a…

The French theater company Pyramid will perform a play titled ‘Index’ at the 35th Fajr International Theater Festival in Tehran slated for January 20-31.

A 2015 production, it is a…

Filmmaker and documentarian Mehdi Asadi, 45, is planning a documentary on the ancient city of Rey.

Rey, also spelled Rayy, was formerly a great city in Iran, remains of which lie on the…

Book City Institute will hold a two-day Italian translation workshop on January 19-20 at its cultural center in Tehran.

The free workshop titled ‘Translation in Italian’ is being organized…

Demobilized soldiers launched mutinies in Ivory Coast’s second-largest city Bouake on Friday, according to military sources and residents.

Almost three weeks after 12 people were killed and almost 50 others were wounded in the Berlin terror attack on a Christmas market, new information regarding the main suspect, Anis Amri, continues…

Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Saturday an agreement had been reached with Turkey over an Iraqi demand that Turkish forces withdraw from a town near Mosul in the north of the…

The US trade deficit widened to a nine-month high in November as exports fell and companies and governments imported the most since August 2015. The gap grew by 6.8% to $45.2 billion from a…

The governor of the Central Bank of Iran said the bank's independence is the byword for the realization of Resistance Economy tenets in the county's monetary policymaking.

"The most…

A credit line of 450 trillion rials ($14 billion at market exchange rate) has been earmarked to complete the controversial Mehr Housing project, announced the head of Majlis Civil Affairs…

The Central Bank of Iran has received $7.2 billion from three foreign banks, namely Exim Bank of China, Italy’s Mediobanca and Denmark’s Danske Bank, a top CBI official announced on Saturday.

The Central Insurance of Iran has finalized assessing insurance firms’ solvency margin ratio for the current fiscal year (started March 20, 2016), according to which 17 out of 26 firms have been…

The industrial sector saw the highest growth of 9.1% during the first six months of the current fiscal year (started March 20, 2016) among other economic sectors of Iran, the Statistical Center of…

Tehran Stock Exchange’s main index shed 163.80 points or 0.21% to end Saturday trade at 78,826.5.

About 989 million shares valued at $33.4 million changed hands for the day.

Saipa…