Catch a glimpse of how it was like to perform Hajj in 1953. Though this was only just over 60 years ago, a lot has changed mainly due to the increase in the number of pilgrims...Read more
Iran Darroudi, born September 2, 1936 in Mashhad, is a contemporary artist, living between Tehran and Paris....Read more
A bus crash on Friday killed 12 people in Iran -- 11 schoolgirls and their bus driver -- who were travelling to the southern city of Shiraz for a sporting and cultural event, state media reported....Read more
Nur Tatar Askari is a Turkish female taekwondo practitioner competing in the feather, light and welterweight divisions. She is of Kurdish descent. She was a member of the TSE Sports...Read more
Birth tourism appears to be on the rise in some parts of Canada, raising questions for doctors and hospitals, as well as debate about Canada’s practice of offering instant citizenship to infants born in the country....Read more
The Notting Hill Carnival is an annual event that has taken place in London since 1966 on the streets of Notting Hill, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, each August over two...Read more
Hundreds of Iranians attended the funeral of Ebrahim Yazdi, one of the country's most influential dissident politicians. Thursday's ceremony took place in a mosque north of Tehran. Yazdi died Sunday in Izmir, Turkey, where he was treated for complications from cancer. He was 85.Y ......Read more
Though the carnage of Hurricane Harvey is currently dominating mainstream media, Texas isn't the only part of the world being ravaged by flooding. International news coverage...Read more
Not long ago an old matchbook laying on photographer Pablo Iglesias Maurer's desk caught his eye. Or rather, it was the postcard-like picture on it, of a resort complex built in the 1960s....Read more
Lake Urmia is an endorheic salt lake . The lake is between the provinces of East Azerbaijan and West Azerbaijan in...Read more
Vanak is a neighbourhood in the northern part of Tehran, and there is a square and a street named after it. The word Vanak means "Small (Oak) Tree" in Persian. The name derives from the original older village of Vanak (Deh-e Vanak) in the area, and today there is also a square ca ......Read more
The office of Mohammad Javad Bahonar, Prime Minister of Iran, was bombed on 30 August 1981 by the People's Mujahedin of Iran (MEK), killing Bahonar, President Mohammad Ali Rajai, and six other Iranian government officials. The briefcase bombing came two months after the Hafte Tir ......Read more
Few things age a person quite like parenting. The late nights, early mornings, broken sleep, and daily worries of having a child all conspire to turn your dark hair white and your smooth skin wrinkled. But as you can see from this incredible list below some moms seem immune to th ......Read more
Nowadays one does not buy anything without a barcode. They have become so common and frequent that we do not even notice it anymore. From now on, be more attentive to them, as it may be in your hands something very creative....Read more
Don’t let the figures overwhelm you. While the settlement had the potential of being Britain’s biggest settlement ever with Mrs Robertson asking for half of her husband’s fortune, it ranks nowhere near the top 10 most expensive settlements....Read more
