• Ice Age rock art found in Britain
    • Archeologists have found a wall carving in a cave in south Wales, which they believe dates back to the Ice Age, and is Britain’ s oldest example of rock art. Dr. George Nash, who found the faint scratching of a speared reindeer, says ...
    • Riyadh blocks Amnesty Intl. website
    • The Saudi Arabian authorities have blocked public access to Amnesty International’s website in response to the rights group’s censure of Riyadh’s intolerance toward dissent.
    • Study says time travel is not possible
    • Scientists from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology say travelling in time is a wild dream and that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light.
    • Roman human remains found in UK
    • British archeologists have unearthed skeletal remains of a man during excavations outside Northamptonshire, which they say are more than 1,600 years old. The Northamptonshire Archaeology team found the crouched skeleton and a on ...
    • Norway terror suspect pleads not guilty
    • The Norwegian terrorist Anders Behring Breivik has pleaded “not guilty” to charges brought against him despite confessing to being behind the recent terrorist attacks in Norway.
    • UN delays Israel’s flotilla attack report
    • The United Nations has once again delayed the release of a report into Israel’s deadly attack on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla in 2010. The UN’s findings about the brutal incident, which left ...
    • 80% of Gaza families rely on food aid
    • The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) says more than 80 percent of households in the impoverished Gaza Strip rely on food assistance. According to the UNRWA, the Israeli blockade has caused ...
    • Most Israelis dislike Tel Aviv policies
    • A new survey has shown that the majority of Israelis are dissatisfied with the social and economic policies of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.The poll, carried out by the War and Peace Index late June, indicated that ...
    • Iran, France seek closer cooperation
    • Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called for the expansion of ties between Iran and France, noting that there are no major differences between Tehran and Paris.
    • Leader: West propaganda targets Islam
    • Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says Western powers try to tarnish the image of Muslims through propaganda and distortion of realities. “An example of Western propaganda [happened] in the recent crimes [committed] in ...
    • UK must change behavior toward Iran
    • Iran’s Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi has called on the British government to seriously “reconsider” its diplomatic behavior toward the Islamic Republic of Iran.
    • Iran’s biggest solar plant inaugurated
    • Iranian First Vice President Muhammad Reza Rahimi has inaugurated Iran’s largest tracking solar power plant in northeast of the country. The solar power plant, designed and built by ...
    • Iran cleric hails MENA revolutionaries
    • A senior Iranian cleric has hailed the resistance of Muslim revolutionaries against their foreign-backed rulers and slammed the West’s disregard for human rights. “Bravo to the insight of Egyptians, who do not ...
    • Secondhand smoke, hearing loss linked
    • Compared to teens with non-smoking parents, adolescents who are exposed to secondhand smoke are two times more likely to develop levels of hearing loss in the long run.
    • Yemenis hold anti-US protests
    • Yemeni anti-government protesters have staged fresh demonstrations against what they call the US and Saudi Arabia’s domination over the country. The angry demonstrators tore pictures of ... The angry demonstrators tore pictures of
    • Israel frightened of its own shadow
    • Iran’s Majlis (parliament) Speaker Ali Larijani says the Zionist regime [of Israel] is under dangerous illusions with respect to its existence and is scared of its own shadow.
    • IRCS 1st relief aid convoy sent to Yemen
    • The Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) has dispatched its first convoy of humanitarian relief to Yemeni people injured in anti-government protests.The convoy was sent from ...
    • Iran downs US spy drone near N-site
    • Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has shot down a US spy drone which was flying over the central Iranian province of Qom, a lawmaker says.
    • Use bigger fork to eat less
    • People, who use a large fork for bigger bites when eating out, usually consume less food than those who take a smaller fork, study says. Researchers from the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, provided ...
    • PSA may help breast cancer diagnosis
    • Measuring blood levels of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) which is widely used in detecting prostate cancer in men may also help in the diagnosis of breast cancer.
    • Iran compiling encyclopedia on Nowruz
    • TEHRAN, ECO Cultural Institute (ECI) in collaboration with the Islamic Culture and Relations Organization (ICRO) are working on compilation of an encyclopedia on Nowruz.
    • Armenia awards Iranian family drama
    • Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi’s Nader and Semin, A Separation has topped the 2011 edition of the Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival.
    • Iran vows to root out PJAK terrorist cell
    • A senior Iranian military commander says the Islamic Republic will continue efforts to completely weed out the Party for Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK) terrorist cell. Iran’ s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) clashed with PJAK terrorists and ...
    • Scientists rediscover rainbow toad
    • A team of scientists from the University Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) have rediscovered a colorful, spindly-legged toad, which they believed to have gone extinct. Three of the missing long-legged rainbow toads were found up a tree after ...
    • Canada, Germany to screen Iranian film
    • Veteran Iranian director Masoud Kimiai’s feature length movie Crime is slated to be screened in movie theaters across Canada and Germany in the near future. The movie is scheduled to be screened in Canada in ...
    • Iran will foil US-Israeli ploys: VP
    • Iran’ s Vice President for parliamentary affairs Muhammad Reza Mirtajeddini has lauded the country’ s resistance against the West’ s excessive desires in the region, stressing Tehran will strongly counter US-Israeli plots.
    • Ahamdinejad opens Ardebil power plant
    • Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has inaugurated the second phase of the Ardebil combined cycle gas plant in northwestern Iran aimed at increasing the electricity capacity of the project. The new phase of the plant has been set up at the cost of ...
    • Early lazy eye treatment more effective
    • The treatment of amblyopia or lazy eye especially in its moderate to severe forms is more successful if performed in younger ages, a new study suggests. Amblyopia, the loss or lack of development of central vision in one eye, is unrelated to ...
    • Iran warns of US blame-game bid
    • Iran’s Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi warns of a new blame-game scheme by Americans against the Islamic Republic, saying the US seeks to ...
    • 1st double-leg transplant successful
    • A team of Spanish doctors have carried out the world’s first ever double-leg transplant on a man whose legs were amputated above the knee after an accident.
    • Iran FM in Algeria ahead of D8 meeting
    • Iran’s Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi arrives in Algeria on a brief visit while en route to the Nigerian capital of Abuja to attend the Group of Eight Developing Countries (D8) meeting.
    • Falling from windows up in summer
    • The number of children injuries caused by falling from an open window increases in hot summer days, health experts warn parents, urging more safety measures. The US Consumer Product Safety Commission warned parents that each year about ...
    • Botox will not help neck pain
    • Botox injections have no considerable effect in reducing neck pain and improving movement or quality of life for patients suffering neck problems. In recent years, the injection of Botulinum toxin has become popular in the treatment of various ...