Sri Lanka’s economy has begun to stabilize after securing a $1.5 billion bailout earlier this year, but the island needs to build its dwindling foreign reserves, the IMF said Saturday.
Should South Africa avoid having its credit rating cut to “junk” in the next two weeks, it could just be staving off the inevitable.
More than half of 12 economists surveyed by Bloomberg…
Asian currency policymakers are worried that the strengthening of the dollar on expectations of US President-elect Donald Trump’s fiscal policies could be used by his administration as a stick to…
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte lashed out at western “bullying” and “hypocrisy” during his first meeting with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin and said when it came to alliances, the…
The president-elect has met with his fierce critic Mitt Romney as he assembles his Cabinet.
Despite the former GOP candidate’s stance on Trump, the meeting has fed rumors that Romney could…
French conservatives are voting in a nationwide primary to choose their nominee for next year’s presidential election, after a campaign marked by concerns about immigration and extremism. Seven…
Four police officers have died after their helicopter crashed over Rio de Janeiro’s notorious City of God favela.
In a dramatic footage of the crash, sustained gunfire can be heard before…
South Korean prosecutors said on Sunday that they believed President Park Geun-hye was an accomplice in a corruption scandal that has rocked her administration, in a heavy blow to her fight for…
A top Iraqi commander said on Sunday that troops were continuing to advance toward the center of Mosul, pushing back the fighters of the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group, but hindered by…
The death toll following the derailment of a train in India’s northern Uttar Pradesh state has now passed 100, with more than 150 injured, police say. Fourteen carriages of the Indore-Patna…
Iranian performance artist Yaser Khaseb won the top place at the THESPIS International Monodrama Festival.
Khaseb, 35, head of theater troupe ‘Crazy Body’, received the First Place Award at…
The Iran-Italy joint theater production ‘Fathers, Mothers and Kids’ written and directed by Arash Abbasi will be staged at Tehran City Theater in December.
A joint project of Iranian Moj…
Art gallery owners in Iran will have their own guild by the end of the current fiscal year in March 2017, according to the prominent artist Lili Golestan, 71, owner and artistic director of…
A Frida Kahlo painting that has never been publicly exhibited and whose whereabouts had been a mystery will be auctioned on November 22 at Sotheby’s in New York.
‘Girl With Necklace’, a…
The first care center for autistic people that will operate round the clock has been inaugurated under the auspices of the Kahrizak Charity Foundation (KCF).
"It will house children and…
As part of the programs organized in Shiraz, capital of Fars Province, for 2017, the year when the city enjoys the status of Islamic Youth Capital, the first Young Iranian Leaders’ Camp is to be…
For patients with heart disease, a pessimistic view of life may ultimately raise their risk of death.
In a new study published in the journal BMC Public Health, researchers found that…
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday declared that Zika no longer constitutes an international emergency, but it stressed a need for a long-term effort to address the virus, which has…
The bigger sizes of fruits, vegetables and fish in the market may look more attractive and appealing to customers. But bigger sizes of the products are usually the result of growth hormones and…
A type of protein called ‘Apolipoprotein A1’ has been recently identified as reducing the rate of success for the embryo being accepted in the endometrium or the inner layer of the uterus.
Over 1,200 babies have been born through natural delivery under the 2014 Health Reform Plan, said Mohammad Aqajani, a deputy health minister. “Promotion of natural childbirth has been on top of…
University of Kurdestan has concluded nine memoranda of understanding with foreign universities so far this year (began March 20), according to the university chancellor.
Twenty-five Iranian pediatric experts have been officially certified as instructors and 50 as providers of Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS), an internationally recognized methodology of…
Iran’s Communications and Information Technology Minister Mahmoud Vaezi attended the International Telecoms Union’s Telecom World 2016 held in Bangkok, Thailand, last week.
“We believe that…
Tehran has signed a €70 million contract with several foreign companies for executing a project on production of radiopharmaceuticals in Iran, the head of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran said…
