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  • An experimental vaccine for the Zika virus is due to begin human testing in coming weeks, after getting the green light from US health officials.

  • A new bill has been passed at the Tehran City Council directing the Tehran Municipality to assign specific numbers to all the capital’s streets and passageways.

    The single-priority bill…

  • Plans are underway by Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization to expand services to visitors of Behistun historical complex in Kermanshah Province while ensuring the…

  • Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization has officially transferred the ownership of 28 historical houses to Shiraz Municipality following the signing of a memorandum of…

  • European and Middle Eastern hotel groups have wasted no time to enter the Iranian market to secure a share of the tourism pie since the signing of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action last July…

  • Certificate courses in a few foreign languages, including Persian, have become “a rage” in Jaipur, the capital of Rajasthan in northern India, due to expanding business ties and an increase in the…

  • Severe coral bleaching on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef could cost it more than a million visitors a year and huge sums in lost tourism revenue, a survey said on Tuesday.

    The World…

  • Heavy dust storms in the western province of Kermanshah have sent a total of 325 people to hospitals across the province on Friday and Saturday, said Dr Sarreh Ahmadi, deputy head of treatment at…

  • Since April 2015, an infertility treatment plan called ‘Barekat-e-Khanevadeh’ (Family Blessing) is underway in Iran’s underprivileged areas in ten provinces and all infertile couples between the…

  • The first online training and counseling center on drugs and addiction prevention has been launched, said Mohammadreza Azarnia, secretary general of the coordination council at the Iran Drug…

  • A total of 15,000 tons of leftover food is thrown out every day in the capital city of Tehran, said managing director of social services at Tehran Municipality.

  • Torrential rains that started on Saturday continue to lash more cities and rural areas in the northwestern province of East Azarbaijan.

    The flooding that claimed two lives in Mianeh County…

  • The production line of a new hi-tech anti-cancer drug will be inaugurated in the coming weeks, said Shams Ali Rezazadeh, deputy head of Iran’s Food and Drug Administration. “The drug docetaxel is…

  • Gender inequalities among Iran’s elderly population is one of the most important issues to be addressed among the 6.4 million seniors in the country, said Mohammad Taqi Hosseini, Labor Ministry’s…

  • Feeling stressed? Get drawing. A new study suggests that creating art can reduce stress levels - regardless of a person’s artistic skill.

    Published in the journal Art Therapy, the…

  • A lethal, record-setting heat wave has hit southwestern United States.

    So far, four people have been killed in Arizona and over 30 million people are under heat warnings or advisories.

  • The authorities in Bushehr Province are dreading the onset of summer and the water problems they routinely endure during the warmer months.

    Meteorologists say this summer will be between 1…

  • Iran needs around 32 helicopters to be able to tame wildfires before they get out of hand, according to a senior official at the Forests, Range and Watershed Management Organization.

    Each…

  • A Melbourne conservationist-turned-entrepreneur has created an app aiming to have a real-world impact on the environment.

    Following years of dedicated volunteer work around the world and…

  • Fifteen domestically-produced vehicles, including passenger cars and pickup trucks, have been barred from registering and receiving license plates from the Department of Environment.

  • Providing free medical services to more than three million Afghan refugees in Iran has imposed a heavy financial burden on the government, said Health Minister Seyed Hassan Qazizadeh Hashemi, in a…

  • Compared with their peers, male youths with severe antisocial behavior problems appear to have significant differences in brain structure, suggesting their problem behavior stems from early life…

  • People do not decide to become extraordinary; they decide to accomplish extraordinary things, said the mountaineer, explorer and philanthropist Sir Edmund Hillary.

  • The 17th International and National Congress of Microbiology will be held August 23-25 at the Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Twelve foreign scholars from France, Spain, Germany, Australia…

  • Torrential rains in the northwestern province of East Azarbaijan that started on Saturday claimed two lives and caused flooding in various cities of the province, news outlets reported Sunday…