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A parking lot in an area covering 60 hectares is under construction near Mehran border adjoining Iran and Iraq, and will be ready by Arba’een, the Shia Muslim religious observance 40 days after…

Health Minister Hassan Hashemi and his French counterpart Marisol Touraine in a meeting in Paris on Wednesday, explored avenues for promoting health cooperation between the two sides. “France is…

The first International Specialized Exhibition of Disabled Rehabilitation Industries, Equipment, and Services opened on Thursday in Tehran’s Mosalla Cultural Exhibition Center.

A ceremony to mark World Food Day in Iran will be held on October 17. World Food Day is celebrated annually on October 16, the founding day of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization in 1945.…

Entrance fees for Greek museums and archeological sites are to increase significantly, doubling and even tripling in some cases, during next year’s tourist season, from April to October.

A labor camp in Albania, a burial site in Chile and a Spanish mission in New Mexico are among a list of cultural heritage sites threatened by neglect, overdevelopment or social, political and…

Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization will begin identifying the country’s top handicraft workshops in the near future to set up a database. “Quality and quantity of the…

Iranian officials have targeted Armenia as one of the country’s 40 target markets to promote tourism.

Speaking to IRNA in Yerevan, Armenia, on Thursday, Masoud Soltanifar, the head of Iran’…

The first IATA educational scheme to be taught in real time by instructors in a virtual environment has been launched in conjunction with Harvard Business Publishing.

The first session of…

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius has made development of tourism ties with Iran a priority, according to the head of Tourism Unit at France's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International…

Twitter Inc. named Omid Kordestani, a former adviser to Google Inc., as executive chairman, taking the post Jack Dorsey vacated when he was named chief executive officer last week, Bloomberg…

The demand for jobs in the next few years will reach five million and 800,000 new jobs should be created annually to cut the dole queues, says Labor Minister Ali Rabiei.

Babies born in the summer are more likely to be heavier at birth, taller as adults and healthier overall, a study at Cambridge University has found.

Researchers at the Medical Research…

One in three of all young men in China will eventually be killed by tobacco unless a substantial proportion of them succeed in quitting smoking, researchers say.

The second conference on ‘National Village Day’ and the first exhibition of rural people’s capabilities was held from October 6 to 9 to honor their efforts and services and to facilitate…

The Food and Drug Administration has banned imports of carbonated drinks, according to its deputy head Dr. Soheil Eskandari. “The measure comes after the FDA prohibited import of juices with high…

A databank on illiterate population has been established, said Ali Baqerzadeh, head of the Literacy Movement Organization. “Having access to information on the illiterate sections will help…

World Sight Day is an annual day of awareness held globally on the second Thursday every October to focus attention on blindness and vision impairment. It is observed together with White Cane Day…

The First International Nanotechnology Olympiad has been planned for  next year in Iran by the Nanotechnology Education Foundation which is active in teaching the science to university…

Special scholarships will be offered to Tunisian and Iranian university students under an exchange program, said Abuzar Ebrahimi Torkman, head of the Islamic Culture and Relations Organization. “…

The world has lost at least 200 (3.1%) frog species since the 1970s and hundreds more will face extinction in the coming decades, according to new research published last week in the Proceedings…

The first center aimed at bringing together officials and NGOs to protect the endangered Persian leopard was inaugurated in Eram, Bushehr Province, on Tuesday.

Eram Governor Masoud Sayyadi…

Gotvand Dam in Khuzestan Province has caused an environmental disaster by reportedly contributing to the death of 400,000 palm trees in Arvandkenar in 2014.

Speaking to ILNA, Ahmadreza…

The Department of Environment has approved a plan to transfer water from Zab River to help revive the embattled Lake Urmia, the department’s deputy for the natural environment and biodiversity…

Iran’s strategies for curbing its greenhouse gas emissions have been outlined and were set to be presented to President Hassan Rouhani’s Cabinet by Tuesday evening.