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
HURRICANE Harvey has killed at least nine people in Texas as deadly flooding continues to devastate the United States....Read more
An earthquake measuring 4.9 on Richter scale has jolted a northwestern Iran city, lightly injuring 13 people. The temblor shook the city of Sharabian of Sarab County in East Azerbaijan Province at 3:45 a.m. local time on Monday (2315 GMT on Sunday) at a depth of six kilometers. T ......Read more
Similar scenes regularly appear on state-run television, edited with dramatic police raids, and appeals by members of the public for swift justice. They serve as propaganda showing Iran has crime under control....Read more
Japan workers are known to be the most hardworking on planet Earth, thanks to its long hours culture. They don’t go back home on time after office hour simply because they would be ridiculed by neighbours for being “lazy”....Read more
What ingredients make up your perfect holiday destination? White sandy beaches? Clear blue waters? Total isolation away from the crowds? ...Read more
