The Iranian government has invited a prestigious group of international investors that includes the Heinz Family Office, Capital Group and Fidelity to visit the country following the relaxation of…

Russia’s Federal Agency for Tourism is speeding up the process of abolishing visa requirements for tours from Iran and India.

Speaking to the state-owned Russia-24 news channel, Oleg…

Minister of Roads and Urban Development Abbas Akhoundi arrived in Ecuador’s capital Quito on Sunday to participate in the Habitat III United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban…

Iran exported some 488,500 tons of non-oil goods worth $290 million to Italy during the first half of the current Iranian year (started March 20), registering a 4% decline in value compared with…

Angry Haitians looted aid trucks as the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visited parts of the country hit by Hurricane Matthew that killed 900 people.

Ban said he witnessed a looting…

Thailand’s Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn wants his coronation held off for at least a year, government officials say.

King Bhumibol Adulyadej died on Thursday and the crown prince wants…

Donald Trump has called for his rival Hillary Clinton to take a drug test before the next televised debate, while a ninth woman has come forward saying that Trump has assaulted her.

A US-hosted meeting of major world and regional powers made only piecemeal headway on creating a new, multilateral track for ending the beleaguered country’s grinding war.

US Secretary of…

Iraqi aircraft dropped “tens of thousands” of leaflets, some bearing safety instructions for Mosul residents, ahead of an operation to retake the city from militants, the military said.

The US military detected a failed North Korean test launch of an intermediate ballistic missile, the Pentagon said on Saturday.

The test-firing was the latest in a series conducted by North…

The Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthi movement in Yemen attacked a funeral there after receiving incorrect information that armed Houthi leaders were in the area, an investigative body set…

Buoyed by Samsung’s embarrassment with its Galaxy Note7, Huawei announced the Nova and Nova Plus will be released in China from October 16, and is bound to build on the popularity of its other…

The recent disaster for Samsung Electronics over its now discontinued Galaxy Note 7 has cost the company in excess of $5 billion in recalls and the worst public relations fiasco in its history.…

Demand for service robots is expected to accelerate in the next three years as robots, which are already used to perform tasks such as assisting medical surgery, milking cows or moving objects…

Windows Phone, that not loved mobile operating system, now has thousands of US police officers looking at their handsets, thanks to a deal between Microsoft and NYPD.

Iran’s Islamic Azad University is to offer undergraduate courses in game development, the university’s website announced.

IAU, which is the largest academic body of the country, and Iran…

The Sixth Bioinformatics Conference of Iran will be held at the University of Tehran on December15-13. The event has been organized by Iran’s Bioinformatics Society and the biochemistry and…

Data on deaths each year and their causes is one of the most important means for assessing the effectiveness of a country’s health system. The figures help national authorities to evaluate public…

Iranian knowledge-based companies have so far managed to produce 35 different nano health products locally, said the director of Human Resources Development Working Group at Iran Nanotechnology…

There are 120,000 classrooms in the country which are in urgent need of renovation, said Morteza Raeesi, deputy minister of education.  “Our main concern is mud schools, half of which are…

Health authorities worldwide need to move much faster to prevent, detect and treat a “deadly epidemic” of tuberculosis if they are to reduce TB infections and deaths by 2030, the World Health…

Vice President for Women and Family Affairs Shahindokht Molaverdi held talks with Shamshad Akhtar Detho, the executive secretary of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and…

The number of addicts in Iran is not less than 2.5 million and if recreational drug users are taken into account the figure will increase to 4 million, said Ali Hashemi, chairman of the committee…

About 400-500 illegal Afghan immigrants are identified across Iran by the Law Enforcement Forces and returned to Afghanistan on a daily basis, said Afghan Minister of Refugees and Repatriations…

The Samen Pharmaceutical Corporation, active in the field of producing and importing dialysis devices, is planning to extend its Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis (CAPD) services to cover…