Shashlik or shashlyk is a dish of skewered and grilled cubes of meat popular in Iran, Eastern and Central Europe (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Poland, Hungary), the Baltic region in Northern Europe (Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia), the Caucasus (Armenia, Azer ......Read more
Lack of trust in the currency has forced Iranians to convert their bank savings into dollars and gold, making muggings and burglaries more lucrative for criminals....Read more
Pyongyang accuses Washington of plotting a 'decapitation strike', and sees in nuclear weapons a powerful deterrent....Read more
Research reveals that environments can increase or reduce our stress, which in turn impacts our bodies. What you are seeing, hearing, experiencing at any moment is changing not only your mood, but how your nervous, endocrine, and immune systems are working....Read more
Gohar Kheirandish, is an Persian actress. While studying and working in Tehran, Kheirandish started working in television....Read more
Bridges are one of the greatest masterpieces of engineering and the most massively intricate structures mankind has ever built....Read more
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
