In 1934, Pars Agency was established by the Foreign Ministry of Iran as the country’s official national news outlet. For the next six years it operated under the Iranian Foreign Ministry working to disseminate national and international news. Pars Agency published a bulletin twice daily in French and Persian, which it circulated among government officials, international news agencies in Tehran ... Read More »
Baskin-Robbins has popped up in Tehran, complete with 31 flavors and its signature pink spoon. According to its owners, the ice cream is in fact gelato ice cream. Read More »
The multi-millionaire Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo has given his agent Jorge Mendes a Greek island as a wedding present, media reports say. The island has not been named but the price tag could run into the millions, reports say. BBC reported that Spain’s Mundo Deportivo website says Ronaldo knows the Greek islands well from holidays. Given that Mendes, the ... Read More »
Sputnik reported today that In their report, titled “Rocking Drones With Intentional Sound Noise on Gyroscopic Sensors”, researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) describe how they have managed to synthesize the sounds of certain resonant frequencies, which caused the drone’s gyroscope to malfunction. The paper, entitled “Rocking Drones with Intentional Sound Noise on Gyroscopic Sensors” ... Read More »
What would it be like to live in a village that you can only get around by water or on foot? That is the reality for the residents of Giethoorn in the Netherlands. While roads have been built on the outskirts, the old part of the village is only accessible by water. The lack of roads means that day-to-day tasks ... Read More »
Photographs and text by Mona Hoobehfekr [link to photographers instagram page]. Wearing a hijab became compulsory in Iran during the first few months after the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Since then, women, and especially girls, gradually started to care about their appearance more considering their new look. [Read More] Reyhaneh Ghahremani, 21, industrial engineer. She started wearing makeup at the ... Read More »
Arab playboys fly their supercars into London on chartered cargo jets (for the trifling sum of $30,000 per vehicle). Recently DailyMail reported that the car owners, many of them from Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE and Kuwait, will happily pay a small fortune – in excess of £20,000 for a return journey – for their metal marvels to be flown around ... Read More »
When you’re working out several times a week to get fit and lose weight, you want a routine that offers maximum results in the minimum amount of time. You can safely lose 3 or more pounds a week at home with a healthy diet and lots of exercise, says weight loss counselor. If you burn 500 more calories than you eat ... Read More »
A wind-whipped wildfire swept over a California freeway Friday, torching nearly two dozen vehicles and sending motorists running for safety. No major injuries were reported. The fire was sparked below the elevated lanes of Interstate 15. Pushed by 40 mph winds, it raced up a hill and onto the traffic-clogged freeway, trapping hundreds of people amid a cauldron of smoke, ... Read More »
Model and actress Amber Heard was on The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon last month. According to Amber, the top tattoo is a line of poetry from Chilean poet Pablo Neruda. Right below that is an Omar Khayyam quote, the Persian poet, and the line of poetry from him Amber Heard chose to have tattooed on her body? Well that one ... Read More »