Heavy snow covered the streets of Tehran on Sunday, causing major flight delays and forcing the closure of schools...Read more

A rare event in the city of 21.5 million that would normally bring hundreds of thousands of people out to take photos and play. But the streets are empty and the parks are so quiet the only sound is of birds chirping....Read more

A Ukrainian airplane carrying 176 people crashed on Wednesday shortly after takeoff from Tehran's main airport, killing all onboard, state TV reported. ...Read more

These days, the more time you spend on the road, the greater the odds you'll witness a car accident. Whether you're driving behind a fender-bender...Read more

Forecasters have warned of possible flash flooding as the UAE faces five straight days of rain. The National Centre of Meteorology said showers of different intensities will affect the entire country over the coming days, up to and including Thursday....Read more

The Moscow subway system will train women to run trains next year, following labour law changes that opens up several professions to them....Read more

Kish, a semi-tropical resort island, 19km off the mainland in the Persian Gulf, is a popular escape from the cold winters for well-to-do Iranians but as yet is really catch...Read more

A powerful blizzard dumped a record-shattering amount of snow on the province of Newfoundland across Friday and ...Read more

Yasmine Etemad-Amini was born in Pars Hospital in Tehran, Iran, on July 26, 1968. She attended the private Tehran Community School in Tehran until the rising tensions in the late 1970s forced her family to leave Iran permanently. ... She was also the Co-Founder and a Director of ......Read more

The city's splendour began with the reign of the Safavid ruler Shah Abbas I (r. 1587-1629), who made Esfahan his capital and built the huge bazaar, which was strategically located on the Silk Road. ...Read more

Ardebil was the spiritual birthplace of Iran's first Shiite ruling dynasty, the Safavids. During the period from the end of the 13th century to the beginning of...Read more

Food, glorious food; there’s nothing quite like it for soothing the mood. It’s essential, it keeps us alive....Read more

Hamdan Bin Mohammed al Maktoum was educated in Dubai at the Rashid School For Boys, and then at the Dubai School of Government....Read more

Despite international sanctions and increasing isolation, there is a relatively new class of super-rich in the Islamic Republic of Iran. ...Read more

The capital of Abadan County in Khuzestan Province, located in southwest of Iran, 53 kilometres (33 mi) from the Persian Gulf near the Iraqi-Iran border. The climate in Abadan is arid, Summers are dry and hot....Read more