The finer details of smart cities have been highlighted by the deputy minister of communications and information technology at a local conference held in Tehran this past week.

A new price comparison website called Kalagard (surf goods) has gone online, to add to the already burgeoning pricing websites available in Iran. Users on the website can check the lowest price…

A South Korean court said on Sunday it had issued arrest warrants for two former presidential aides under investigation in an influence peddling scandal that has sent President Park Geun-hye’s…

US forces in Afghanistan conceded on Saturday that their airstrikes in the northern province of Kunduz had “very likely” resulted in civilian killings.

At least 32 people, including babies…

Democratic US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton holds a five-point lead over Republican Donald Trump in the latest Washington Post-ABC Tracking Poll released early on Sunday.

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Three Palestinians were wounded, one critically, after being attacked by Israeli settlers on Saturday in the village of al-Janiya in the central occupied West Bank district of Ramallah…

Some 1,000 protesters in the center of Istanbul were confronted by tear gas and water cannon on Saturday, as they tried to reach the offices of the “Cumhuriyet” newspaper, nine of whose…

British Prime Minister Theresa May warned lawmakers on Sunday not to block Brexit, after the High Court ruled that she cannot start the process of leaving the European Union without the parliament…

Bulgarians voted Sunday in a first round of presidential election, a key test of Prime Minister Boyko Borisov’s popularity in the EU’s poorest country.

If his candidate and protégée,…

Iraqi security forces drove the fighters of the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group from the center of a town just south of the militants’ main stronghold of Mosul on Saturday and reached…

Although the 29th Tehran International Book Fair (TIBF) was held at its new venue Shahr-e-Aftab (Sun City) in south of Tehran earlier in May, the site is not host to the annual 22nd Press…

The non-governmental Institute for Research on the History of Children’s Literature, in cooperation with Iran Book House, both based in Tehran, is organizing a round table on the promotion of…

An exhibition of calligraphy works written in Nastaleeq script opened at Mojdeh Art Gallery in Tehran on November 4.

Titled ‘Essence of Soul’, the exhibit includes a total of 25 artworks…

The Lesson, a play written by Romanian-French playwright Eugene Ionesco (1909-1994), will be staged at Iranian Artists Forum (IAF) in Tehran by theater director and photographer Parinaz Ale Agha,…

Three US troops were killed in a shooting attack outside a Jordanian training facility on Friday, a US official said, following earlier reports that one or two US personnel were dead.

Tens of thousands of South Koreans protested in central Seoul on Saturday in one of the largest demonstrations in the country's capital for years, calling on embattled President Park Geun-hye to…

Seven housing schemes for distressed urban areas have been proposed by the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development in a joint initiative by the government, private sector and the public, deputy…

British Prime Minister Theresa May will lead a major business delegation to India this week, using her first trip outside Europe since the Brexit vote to push for more trade with the world’s…

A trade delegation from Italy's Lombardy region is scheduled to arrive in Tehran on November 12.

The 22nd Press Exhibition opened at Imam Khomeini Grand Mosalla in Tehran on Saturday in the presence of President Hassan Rouhani and the newly-appointed Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance…

India’s economy is expected to fare better in the second half of the current fiscal backed by uptick in sales and improved capacity utilization, though fresh investments and new jobs creation may…

Central banks across the developed world are facing a tough stretch: Months of political events—chief among them Tuesday’s US election—that will put their loose policies and their independence in…

Greece needs just six weeks to create a global economic plan, new Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis said, as he tours Europe looking for backing to renegotiate the country’s debt repayment,…

The Central Bank of Sudan is offering Sudanese living abroad incentives to attract their foreign currency into the Sudanese banking system to alleviate the country’s foreign currency crunch,…

Kuwait will issue billions of dollars worth of bonds in international markets to finance a budget deficit resulting from low oil prices, a report said Saturday, Alaraby reported. It comes as anger…