Shanghai-based SAIC Motor Corporation, which produces Roewe and MG vehicles, plans to introduce three hybrid vehicles to the Iranian market at the  Tehran Auto Show in February, which will be…

China will extend a tax cut on small-engine vehicles to 2017, rather than allowing it to expire at year’s end as planned, two sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters on December 14. It…

The Department of Environment is set to announce its final verdict on a controversial scheme to turn Ashouradeh, the only Iranian island in the Caspian Sea, into a tourist resort by the end of the…

The Energy Ministry will send its proposal to fine households with high water consumption to the Majlis to encourage more judicious use of the precious resource and help mitigate the effects of…

China is set to announce when it will close its legal ivory carving factories, 18 months after pledging to act. Last year, the world’s largest market for both legal and illegal ivory said it would…

All the provincial offices of the Department of Environment have stopped issuing bird hunting licenses to prevent a potential outbreak of avian influenza (or bird flu), a senior environment…

Donald Trump's incoming presidency will not be kind to climate change science and that's making both scientists and government divisions nervous—to the point where they're taking unusually drastic…

Atmospheric water resources are safe, sustainable and efficient sources that can help meet the country's water demands, according to the head of Iran's Water Research Institute.

In his latest play, Iranian theater director and actor Ramin Sayardashti, is inspired by the dark, eccentric and quirky fantasies of American film director Tim Burton.

An Iranian engineer who works in the design field has won the Designer of the Year award in Singapore.

Hussein Rezai, 60, is the Tehran-born founder and director of Web Structures, an…

The Iranian choir Avaye Mahan will perform a repertoire of nostalgic musical pieces of the 1950s to 1970s by famous American and European singers at Tehran’s Vahdat Hall on January 1, 2017.

A portrait of the writer Oscar Wilde, which had to be sold off after he went bankrupt, is to return from America for the first time in nearly a century.

It will be displayed at Tate Britain…

Veteran master of Nasta’liq calligraphy Mohammad Salahshour, recipient of the first degree art certificate from the Culture and Islamic Guidance Ministry, has organized an exhibition ‘Word of Love…

Near complete results in Macedonia’s early general elections show that the country’s conservative coalition has gained a slim victory over its Social Democratic rivals, but with neither party…

Gambia’s security forces have entered the building of the Independent Electoral Commission, instructed its chairman to leave and barred other employees from entering, according to the commission…

The self-styled Islamic State terrorist group has claimed on Tuesday a suicide bombing two days ago at Cairo’s main Coptic cathedral and threatened more attacks against Christians.

The…

The center-right European People’s Party nominated Italian Antonio Tajani as its candidate for head of the European Parliament to succeed German Socialist Martin Schulz, who said he will step down…

The new prime minister of Yemen’s Houthi movement said Britain is guilty of war crimes in Yemen, accusing the country of participating in the bombing of civilians through its sales of arms to…

Rex Tillerson’s controversial nomination as secretary of state has delighted Moscow where the Texan oilman has deep and longstanding ties.

Donald Trump’s choice of the ExxonMobil chief was…

France’s Parliament voted early Wednesday to extend a national state of emergency until July 15, after next year’s elections.

The leaders of France and Germany, speaking two days before an EU summit to discuss the conflict in eastern Ukraine, said they want to extend sanctions against Russia due to a lack of progress in…

Russian agency for export credit and investment insurance, EXIAR, signed an agreement each with Bank Pasargad Iran and Parsian Bank on the sidelines of the 13th meeting of Iran-Russia Economic…

US president-elect, Donald Trump, on Tuesday formally announced Exxon-Mobil Chairman and CEO Rex Tillerson as his nomination to serve as US secretary of state.

“His tenacity, broad…

The Central Bank of Iran has unveiled a roadmap revolving around three goals to achieve long-term targets envisioned by Resistance Economy, announced the bank's governor.

Transactions between Iranian and Swiss banks have totaled $8 billion since the lifting of the sanctions nearly a year ago, said Mohammad Nahavandian, President Hassan Rouhani's chief of staff.