The global shipping industry is in dire straits with international rates low for five years, and for some vessels, the current day rates are covering less than 5% of costs.

For over three decades, China has experienced a staggering public investment boom. In 2014, it  spent $4.6 trillion on fixed assets, accounting for 24.8% of total worldwide investments and…

German companies look set to hire half a million more people next year, with the economy in Europe’s powerhouse remaining robust. Securing scarce skilled labor is key, labor market experts say.

Zimbabwe has begun issuing a surrogate currency—$2 and $5 denomination ‘bond notes’—in a bid to ease a cash shortage. The move has prompted fears of a return to hyperinflation, DW reported.…

Some 190,000 ducks were destroyed on Saturday at six farms in the Netherlands following an avian flu outbreak, the country’s first cull of an epidemic sweeping northern Europe.

Outbreaks of…

Lack of cooperation among relevant authorities and ineffective intersectoral collaboration hampers the fight to curb violence against women, said Vice President for Women and Family Affairs…

The practice of buying a kidney from a living donor is legal in Iran and regulated by the government. According to Mohammad Kazemeini, head of the Organ Transplant Management Center at the Health…

Yasuj University in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province has signed a memorandum of understanding with the University of Florence to launch academic cooperation, according to Chancellor of Yasuj…

The oldest living man in the country has been registered by the national census that is underway. The 135-year-old man Ahmad Soufi, lives in the western city of Saqqez, Kordestan Province. His…

There have been no cases of bird flu in humans so far this year, said Mahmoud Nabavi, deputy head of the Health Ministry’s Center for Managing Communicable Diseases.

Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) in Seri Kembangan, Malaysia is slated to host the Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Development Forum on December 19-23 this year.

The five-day event is in…

A sixth person has died in the Australian city of Melbourne after a storm triggered thousands of pollen allergy asthma attacks, the Victorian state government said on Sunday. Heavy rain and winds…

Cubans began massing on Havana’s Revolution Square from Monday for a weeklong commemoration of Fidel Castro, the communist guerrilla leader who led a revolution in 1959 and ruled the Caribbean…

US president-elect Donald Trump has asserted he won the popular vote on November 8 “if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally”.

The Republican, who won the all-important…

A man has been killed and nine others injured in a shooting in the historic French Quarter of the US city of New Orleans. Police said the shooter opened fire shortly before 01:40 local time (0740…

Francois Fillon has won France’s first-ever conservative primary ahead of next year’s presidential election, declaring victory over moderate Alain Juppe. Fillon will likely face off against the…

Thousands participated in nationwide protests in India on Monday against the government’s ban on two major currency notes.

Most opposition parties have said they will participate in the so-…

Syrian government forces and their allies captured a major eastern Aleppo neighborhood and several smaller areas on Monday, putting much of the northern part of Aleppo’s besieged militant-held…

Philippine police conducted a controlled detonation of a homemade bomb found in a trash bin near the US Embassy in Manila on Monday and said militants sympathetic to the self-styled Islamic State…

A report on crossover vehicles imported in the first seven months of the current Iranian year (started March 20) has been released by the market monitoring section of Car Iran.

According to…

A directive by a subdivision of Iran's Customs Administration prohibits any car registered in free trade zones from entering the Iranian mainland.

The directive, which has been circulating…

The Regulations Bureau of Trade Promotion Organization of Iran has announced new directives for the import of cars.

The organization, affiliated with the Ministry of Industries, Mining and…

Arian Motors, the official representative of Mitsubishi Motors in Iran, reported that it has been able to sell more cars than the company’s previous year’s total sales.

An Iranian engineer has claimed to have converted a locally produced Peugeot 405 from gasoline to a hydrogen fuelled machine, according to a new video released online.

Alaeddin Qasemi…

Iranian woman filmmaker Narges Abyar received the best director award for ‘Breath’ at the awards ceremony of the 20th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival which drew to a close on Saturday, November…