In President Hassan Rouhani’s budget for the next fiscal year (starts in March 2017), which was presented to the Majlis last week, the telecoms sector is likely to get a cut, initial reports show…

HMD Global, the Finnish company that owns the rights to use the Nokia brand on mobile phones, announced its first new products on December 13 - two basic handsets without internet access priced at…

According to a Persian language report by Khabar Online, a study carried out in Shiraz University of Medical Sciences proves that severe electro-magnetic waves increase the risk of infertility,…

Persian Gulf city state Abu Dhabi has signed the United Arab Emirates’ second hyperloop feasibility study to build a futuristic high-speed rail transport system connecting the cities of Abu Dhabi…

Voice services such as Microsoft’s Skype and Facebook’s WhatsApp services face stricter rules on how they handle customer data under new security laws due to be proposed by the European Union.

Workers building the 2022 World Cup stadiums in Qatar will remain at risk of forced labor because of “meager reforms” that “barely scratch the surface” of the Persian Gulf state’s exploitation of…

The overseers of the US intelligence community have not embraced a CIA assessment that Russian cyberattacks were aimed at helping Republican president-elect, Donald Trump, win the 2016 election,…

The Syrian Army has taken control over 98% of Aleppo’s territory, the Russian Center for Reconciliation of opposing sides said in a statement on Tuesday. “In the past 24 hours, the Syrian troops…

Francois Fillon, the conservative candidate currently seen as most likely to win next year’s French presidential election, said in a newspaper column on Tuesday that he had no plans to privatize…

A new IS attack on Palmyra from the Mosul region could be “orchestrated” to divert the attention of Syrian government forces from Aleppo and spare the militants entrenched in the city, Russian…

A US senator expressed doubt that the US-led coalition could have overlooked the advance of IS militants from Mosul toward Palmyra, pointing to the possible interests of the US and regional…

Nominations for the 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards were announced on Monday, December 12, and Asghar Farhadi’s acclaimed film ‘The Salesman’ is among the five nominees in the Best Motion Picture…

Blackbird, a play written in 2005 by Scottish playwright David Harrower, opened on Monday, December 12, at Charsou Hall of Tehran City Theater.

The play was inspired by the crimes of former…

An Iranian archaeologist has spent years across the country’s hills and desert plains to uncover ancient rock art that could be among the oldest in the world.

Now he hopes that renewed ties…

Goharan (gems) artworks auction will put on sale a total of 100 works of prominent Iranian artists on Friday, December 16, at Niavaran Complex in northern Tehran.

The proceeds will be used…

The first international photography competition of ‘Intangible Cultural Heritage in Context’ has called for submissions.

Voting is underway in Hong Kong to elect a committee, which is tasked with choosing the next leader of the Chinese-administered city in the upcoming election slated to be held in March next year…

Romania’s Social Democratic Party (PSD) has comfortably won the parliamentary elections, according to preliminary results, a year after a major anti-corruption drive forced the left-leaning party…

Italian energy company Eni will sell a 30% stake in its giant Egyptian offshore gas field Zohr to Russia’s Rosneft for $1.575 billion, pressing ahead with asset sales to fund investments and…

The total value of term deposits in the Iranian banking system grew by 12.8% to reach 9.23 quadrillion rials ($236.5 billion at the official exchange rate) during the seven-month period ending Oct…

Officials from the Council of Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), along with architects, experts and policymakers, are set to discuss high-rise buildings and their efficiency as a solution…

The news last week that Iran is switching its national currency to toman was more than just a big announcement; it also polarized opinion and exposed the apparent disharmony among policymaking…

Nearly two dozen of the world’s most successful business leaders, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists will invest up to $1 billion in a fund led by Microsoft-co-founder Bill Gates that aims to…

Saudi Arabia is wrong to think that US shale production will not respond to higher oil prices in 2017, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

The European Commission on Monday cleared four renewable energy support schemes in France, as well as Danish support for energy intensive users, saying they were in line with European Union rules…