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  • The prevalence of antisocial behavior among road users (drivers, motorcyclists, and pedestrians) in Iran has caused a chaotic urban life that has been a subject of ridicule also in cyberspace.…

  • Sierra Leone braced for more floods as the country buries the casualties of a mudslide that killed hundreds of people in the capital, Freetown. A mudslide happened on Monday after a mountainside…

  • Four Iranian hajj pilgrims (three men and one woman) have lost their lives due to heart failure during the annual ritual.

    Another four Iranians are in Saudi hospitals in Medina, one of…

  • Weight Suspension Machine Developed  Experts at an Iranian knowledge-based company have designed and produced a machine to suspend body weight on a treadmill to facilitate rehabilitation…

  • Three people were killed and 35 were injured when a bus overturned on the Sharoud-Sabzevar Highway in the early hours of Friday morning. The incident occurred at about 3:30 a.m., according to…

  • Iran has topped the 18th math and 10th chemistry international Olympiads held on August 13-17 in Tehran’s Shahid Beheshti University.    The results were announced on Thursday…

  • Yazd Province is leading efforts to make city passages accessible for those with physical disabilities, according to Ebrahim Kazemi Momen Saraei, who leads the State Welfare Organization's…

  • Obesity is prevalent in low-income households in Tehran, and members of the capital’s poor families are more likely to be overweight, according to a recent study.

    Data for the study was…

  • People who stand for long periods at work may have another reason to join their seated colleagues in moving more.

    When researchers followed 7,300 Ontario workers aged 35 to 74 who were…

  • Work has begun on developing four coastal tourism resorts in southern Sistan-Baluchestan Province on the shores of the Sea of Oman, the head of the provincial office of Iran's Cultural Heritage…

  • Iranian authorities will review the tourism potentials of 1,000 villages in the current Iranian year (started March 21) and draw up plans for those with the biggest potential.

    Seyyed…

  • Cultural heritage officials, in cooperation with the Islamic Republic of Iran Railways, are preparing the dossier for the country’s railroad network for inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage…

  • Airline entrepreneur Hans Rudolf Woehrl is interested in insolvent Air Berlin, an unnamed spokeswoman for his company INTRO-Verwaltungs told Reuters, responding to a media report saying he was…

  • European nationals will still be able to pass freely without passport checks between the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland after the UK’s departure from the EU, under new government plans.

  • Adrian Bell and his wife, Lindsey, were flying to the United Kingdom after a vacation in Zante, Greece, when he purchased a sandwich from Easyjet. He was surprised to find the toasted cheese…

  • Iranian pilgrims in Mecca and Medina in Saudia Arabia are in good health up to now, according to Pir Hossein Kolivand, the head of Emergency Medical Service.

    Saudi media reported on…

  • Niyayesh Highway, a major motorway in north Tehran connecting east to west, will be renamed in honor of the late president Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani on Friday.

    The influential…

  • It didn’t seem like a big problem in the beginning of summer.

    Whiteflies, which had for years besieged Tehran, were nowhere around and residents of the sprawling capital were beginning…

  • Breathing dirty air causes stress hormones to spike, new research suggests, which could help explain why long-term exposure to pollution is associated with heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and a…

  • If I were to advertise an opening for the mayor of a typical city in Iran, I would be writing “dynamic individual wanted, must have a deep understanding of public-private partnership, manage day…

  • Some 4,000 families under the umbrella of the Imam Khomeini Relief Foundation will be given homes, according to the head of the foundation’s Housing and Construction Office. “The housing units…

  • Five blood transfusion centers are currently under construction in four districts in Tehran (districts 1, 4, 5 and 20). All the projects are funded through donations, said Fardin Balouchi,…

  • Not paying attention to the road was the cause for 32% of all road crashes in the Iranian month of Tir (June 22-July 21), said Colonel Nader Rahmani, head of Iran’s Traffic Control Information…

  • A campaign to plant trees to compensate for the impact of US President Donald Trump’s climate policies has garnered pledges to plant 120,000 trees.

    The project, known as Trump Forest,…

  • An online portal has been launched by the Department of Environment to facilitate the process of obtaining hunting permits and monitor their issuance.

    "This is in line with Iran's e-…