In a meeting with Iranian officials, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin revealed plans to facilitate visa procedures for a number of countries, including Iran. Ukraine's top diplomat made…

As international companies return to Iran following the nuclear agreement and local companies look to expand their post-sanctions plans, several local job finding businesses are aiding renewed…

Iran’s Pishkhan, a company affiliated with the state, has launched a new website to help learner-drivers prepare for the country’s mandatory driving theory test.

Pishkhan, which offers…

A project to develop a new space telescope in Iran’s Alborz Province has been made public and the center hosting it is likely to be opened before 2017. The center would be the first of its kind in…

Scientists have developed a new way to manipulate atoms inside diamond crystals so that they store information long enough to function as quantum memory, which encodes information not as the 0s…

Academic Books will be held from November 14-18 at the Imam Khomeini Grand Musalla (prayer ground) in Tehran.

The fair is being organized by the Cultural Association of Foreign Publishers…

The one-person play ‘3600 Seconds Death’ written by Amir-Hossein Behbahani, directed by Elham Yousefi and performed by Ava Alavi will attend the 8th United Solo Theater Festival, slated for…

Well known actor and theater director Siavash Tahmoures, 69, will stage an improvised version of an old play called ‘Void in Void’ for a week in November.

Titled ‘Hich dar Hich’ in Persian…

The UK’s biggest Muslim lifestyle event Muslim Lifestyle Expo (MLE) took place in Manchester, October 29-30.

The two-day exhibition, now in its second year, was designed to provide a unique…

Filming of the acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Pouran Derakhshandeh’s new movie ‘Under the Smoky Ceiling’ is underway in Tehran.

Similar to her previous works, the film deals with an important…

Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign team has challenged the FBI over its decision to brief US lawmakers on a new inquiry into the Democratic candidate’s email use.

FBI Director James…

A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.6 has rocked the same area of central and southern Italy hit by quake in August and a pair of aftershocks last week, sending already quake-…

Saudi coalition warplanes struck a prison in the Yemeni city of Hodeidah, killing 60 people including inmates, a local official, relatives and medical sources in the Houthi-controlled Red Sea Port…

Mariano Rajoy will serve a second term as prime minister, although it will be at the head of a minority government. Rajoy won a confidence vote, thanks to the opposition Socialist Party’s decision…

The Icelandic upstart Pirate Party has witnessed lower-than-expected results at the polls.

The party’s leader said they had not expected to gain the most votes in the first elections since…

France’s president has urged Britain to take its share of responsibility for migrant children who remain in Calais after the “Jungle” camp was cleared.

Francois Hollande added that 1,500…

Turkish authorities have dismissed more than 10,000 civil servants over their suspected links with US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, blamed by Ankara for orchestrating the failed coup in July.

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro has threatened to jail "anyone who violates the constitution", amid vows by his opponents to launch a trial to remove him from power. The warning came after a…

An American Airlines plane has caught fire on the runway of Chicago's O'Hare airport while taking off.

The Boeing 767 bound for Miami experienced an "uncontained engine failure", officials…

The New Zealand dollar has been in salvage mode since October 13 as it recovers from a near 6% drop over 26 trading days that began in early September. Much of the data that fuels currency…

The economy is forecast to sink 8% this year and the International Monetary Fund forecasts inflation will soar to four digits next year, AP reported. Foreign currency reserves have tumbled. Oil…

The IMF is upbeat on progress being made with Myanmar’s economy, Mizzima reported. An International Monetary Fund staff team led by Yongzheng Yang visited Myanmar from October 14-28, to undertake…

The average apartment rent in Dubai dropped to AED125,000 ($34,000) per annum in the third quarter of 2016, down 2% from the previous quarter, according to a new report, Arabian Business reported…

China is strategically buying up key technologies in Germany while protecting its own companies against foreign takeovers with “discriminatory requirements”, German Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel…

EU nations approved a landmark free-trade deal with Canada late Friday, clearing the way for its signing after a drama that saw Belgian regions threaten to torpedo years of negotiations.