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The population growth rate is below zero in the capital Tehran, while it is growing by 4.7% in the suburbs and outlying areas of cities, said Sabra Saeedi, a city council member of Bojnurd in…

American children died of self-inflicted gunshot wounds at a sharply higher rate in 2014 than seven years earlier, according to a study released on Monday, which said that the safe storage of…

As the cost of educating a child with special needs is four times that of a normal student, the Education Ministry has increased funding for special education fourfold to bridge the gap.

Currently, 400,000 Iranians (one in 200 people) suffer from a type of cancer, and annually 85,000 new cancer cases are identified in the country, said Bahram Mofid, deputy head of the Iranian…

The 11th Annual International Addiction Science Congress (ASC2017) will be held September 13-15 at Razi Conference Hall in Tehran, said Mohsen Roshan Pazhuoh, deputy of addiction prevention at the…

With the number of inbound tourists declining in Mashhad, building more hotels makes little sense, the head of Khorasan Razavi Hotels Association said.

Mohammad Qanei added that hotel…

Residents who live near Grenfell Tower in London have expressed heartbreak and outrage after spotting visitors taking selfies at the site of last week's deadly fire. Signs have been erected near…

The private sector has spent over 400 billion rials ($10.6 m) on restoration of cultural heritage sites in the southeastern province of Kerman, the director of the provincial office of Iran's…

Iran has finally taken firm steps toward sorting out one of the biggest problems plaguing its travel industry: Statistics.

AirAsia X has once more dropped plans to resume long-haul, intercontinental services to Europe, AirAsia Group CEO Tony Fernandes has confirmed. In a series of tweets on Monday, Fernandes said the…

Qatar Airways said it could go to court to claw back the additional operating costs it’s running up after neighboring states in the Persian Gulf excluded it from their airspace amid an ongoing…

The salinity of water resources in the arid province of Yazd is increasing due to manmade factors, the managing director of Yazd Regional Water Company said. 

Generally, the planet’s…

Global warming was a factor in a deadly fire that hit central Portugal and left more than 60 people dead, it’s been claimed.

Thomas Curt, a researcher at the National Research Institute of…

Every year, millions of tons of plastics are produced and trashed, with some ending up in the sea, and gobbled up by fish. 

Even though countries don’t report on how much plastic they…

What do turmeric, apples, and grapes have in common? According to a new study, they could hold the key to preventing and treating one of the most common cancers in the United States.

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Iran’s Technical and Vocational Training Organization (TVTO) and the International Training Center of the ILO (ITC/ILO) signed an agreement on Saturday for cooperation in labor force training.…

There is no shortage of intravenous serum in the country, said head of the Food and Drug Administration Rasoul Dinarvand on Monday. 

Public authorities and people need to change their mindsets to accept rehabilitated drug addicts back into the society, said Mohammad Hadi Ayyazi, deputy health minister.

At least 70,000 Iranians suffer from Multiplesclerosis (MS) as per official data, and around 2 million people around the world have MS, said Seyed Hossein Vaziri, head of Iran Multiple Sclerosis…

The national document to tackle social harms among students developed two years ago for the first time in the country, was under a trial run in six provinces. 

Since the beginning of…

Reconstructed and renovated residential units will be provided to last month’s quake-affected families in North Khorasan Province by October, prior to the start of the cold season, said Mohammad…

Two youngsters died of sunstroke in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan, said Mahmoud-Reza Naseh, director of Emergency Center at Iranshahr’s University of Medical Sciences, on Monday…

Prescription drug abuse causes the largest percentage of deaths from drug overdosing. “Commonly abused classes of prescription drugs include opioids or painkillers,” said Dr Hamid Khoyi, secretary…

Pentavalent vaccine which protects against five major infections including diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough), hepatitis B and Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib), was added to the…

Catching up on lost sleep over weekends may help people keep their weight down, according to a study in South Korea.

Not getting enough sleep can disrupt hormones and metabolism and is…