A team of designers in Seattle built a bike that could be your new best option for navigating busy city streets. They have created this innovative bike that was named winner of “The Bike Design Project”, a competition between five groups who were encouraged to build the “Ultimate Urban Utility Bike”. The bike will now go into production as an e-bike ... Read More »
Costa Rican defender Michael Umana has signed a two-year contract with Iranian club Persepolis on Sunday. “I’m really excited to join Persepolis and I hope to have good days with the team. I’ve asked for the number 4 jersey and fortunately it was available. This is my favorite number and I’m happy that the club gave it to me, Umana ... Read More »
The star of Gravity tops Forbes’ list of best-paid Hollywood actresses. Oscar winner Sandra Bullock is Hollywood’s highest paid actress with estimated earnings of US $51mil over 12 months, followed by Jennifer Lawrence and Jennifer Aniston, Forbes magazine said. Bullock, 50, had a big hit last year with the space thriller film Gravity, which won seven Academy Awards including best ... Read More »
Al-Monitor reports, Iran’s national volleyball team is attracting record crowds on its first visit to the United States, part of a new wave of people-to-people exchanges promoted by both governments in recent months. Playing the US national team in the first of four exhibition matches on Aug. 9, the Iranians could be forgiven for thinking they were back in Tehran, ... Read More »
Hossein Mousavian a research scholar at Princeton University and a former spokesman for Iran’s nuclear negotiators in an OpEd piece in “Gulf News” talks about the current turmoil in the region and the need for better ties with the long running untrusting foes. He goes on to say: to mend their differences in an effort to address urgent regional security ... Read More »
David Cameron has said that UK must look in to allying itself with Iran to combat the Sunni Extremists threat, that could extend to “the shored of the Mediterranean”. Suggesting that it was now in the UK’s national interest to put aside decades of enmity with the Shia regime in Tehran, the PM called on Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to “engage ... Read More »
The Gateshead Millennium Bridge is a pedestrian and cyclist tilt bridge spanning the River Tyne in England between Gateshead’s Quays arts quarter on the south bank, and the Quayside of Newcastle upon Tyne on the north bank. The award-winning structure was conceived and designed by architects Wilkinson Eyre and structural engineers Gifford. The bridge is sometimes referred to as the ... Read More »
BBC reports: Scientists and chocolate fans are being given the chance to indulge their sweet tooth by becoming a doctor of chocolate at Cambridge University. A researcher is being sought for a PhD on chocolate by the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology. The challenge is to stop chocolate melting in warm climates by studying the “fundamentals of heat-stable chocolate”. ... Read More »
Iran’s Iman Sadeghikoukandeh executed quite the feat against Russia’s Rashidov Gadzhimurad in the semifinals of the FILA Junior World Championships. Gadzhimurad had Sadeghikoukandeh’s leg pinned while standing and was trying to cherry-pick him so he’d fall, but Sadeghikoukandeh kept his balance so he could do a damn flip over Gadzhimurad.The Russian wasn’t expecting it, and Sadeghikoukandeh took advantage of the ... Read More »
Iran’s Head coach in the 2014 World Cup said that he would be back in Iran to sign an extension to his contract as soon as the Football Federation President, Ali Kafashian, asks him. “It depends on Kafashian’s decision. I’ll fly to Iran whenever he wants me back. It’s not in my hands to set the date for my return ... Read More »