People

An experimental vaccine for the Zika virus is due to begin human testing in coming weeks, after getting the green light from US health officials.

A new bill has been passed at the Tehran City Council directing the Tehran Municipality to assign specific numbers to all the capital’s streets and passageways.

The single-priority bill…

Plans are underway by Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization to expand services to visitors of Behistun historical complex in Kermanshah Province while ensuring the…

Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization has officially transferred the ownership of 28 historical houses to Shiraz Municipality following the signing of a memorandum of…

European and Middle Eastern hotel groups have wasted no time to enter the Iranian market to secure a share of the tourism pie since the signing of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action last July…

Certificate courses in a few foreign languages, including Persian, have become “a rage” in Jaipur, the capital of Rajasthan in northern India, due to expanding business ties and an increase in the…

Severe coral bleaching on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef could cost it more than a million visitors a year and huge sums in lost tourism revenue, a survey said on Tuesday.

The World…

Heavy dust storms in the western province of Kermanshah have sent a total of 325 people to hospitals across the province on Friday and Saturday, said Dr Sarreh Ahmadi, deputy head of treatment at…

Since April 2015, an infertility treatment plan called ‘Barekat-e-Khanevadeh’ (Family Blessing) is underway in Iran’s underprivileged areas in ten provinces and all infertile couples between the…

The first online training and counseling center on drugs and addiction prevention has been launched, said Mohammadreza Azarnia, secretary general of the coordination council at the Iran Drug…

A total of 15,000 tons of leftover food is thrown out every day in the capital city of Tehran, said managing director of social services at Tehran Municipality.

Torrential rains that started on Saturday continue to lash more cities and rural areas in the northwestern province of East Azarbaijan.

The flooding that claimed two lives in Mianeh County…

The production line of a new hi-tech anti-cancer drug will be inaugurated in the coming weeks, said Shams Ali Rezazadeh, deputy head of Iran’s Food and Drug Administration. “The drug docetaxel is…

Gender inequalities among Iran’s elderly population is one of the most important issues to be addressed among the 6.4 million seniors in the country, said Mohammad Taqi Hosseini, Labor Ministry’s…

Feeling stressed? Get drawing. A new study suggests that creating art can reduce stress levels - regardless of a person’s artistic skill.

Published in the journal Art Therapy, the…

A lethal, record-setting heat wave has hit southwestern United States.

So far, four people have been killed in Arizona and over 30 million people are under heat warnings or advisories.

The authorities in Bushehr Province are dreading the onset of summer and the water problems they routinely endure during the warmer months.

Meteorologists say this summer will be between 1…

Iran needs around 32 helicopters to be able to tame wildfires before they get out of hand, according to a senior official at the Forests, Range and Watershed Management Organization.

Each…

A Melbourne conservationist-turned-entrepreneur has created an app aiming to have a real-world impact on the environment.

Following years of dedicated volunteer work around the world and…

Fifteen domestically-produced vehicles, including passenger cars and pickup trucks, have been barred from registering and receiving license plates from the Department of Environment.

Providing free medical services to more than three million Afghan refugees in Iran has imposed a heavy financial burden on the government, said Health Minister Seyed Hassan Qazizadeh Hashemi, in a…

Compared with their peers, male youths with severe antisocial behavior problems appear to have significant differences in brain structure, suggesting their problem behavior stems from early life…

People do not decide to become extraordinary; they decide to accomplish extraordinary things, said the mountaineer, explorer and philanthropist Sir Edmund Hillary.

The 17th International and National Congress of Microbiology will be held August 23-25 at the Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Twelve foreign scholars from France, Spain, Germany, Australia…

Torrential rains in the northwestern province of East Azarbaijan that started on Saturday claimed two lives and caused flooding in various cities of the province, news outlets reported Sunday…