Harvard University researchers have suggested that cooked tomatoes are more beneficial than fresh ones. While most raw vegetables are superior to cooked ones, tomatoes are a notable exception, the researchers say. New research has indicated that the antioxidant power in tomatoes can be boosted through cooking the vegetable. Study reveals that cooked tomatoes have greater available lycopene which has powerful ... Read More »
Well officially the summer is over, it was not too hot just about right. The photographer of Mehr-news does a fantastic job of catching some great moments of vacationers enjoying the end of summer, soon the heat will be replaced by cooler Autumn weather. Read More »
A jury has convicted Nima Nassiri of second-degree murder in the death of his wife Sanaz Nezami who moved from Iran to pursue an advanced degree at Michigan Technological University. 911: What location is your emergency?” “Hi, it’s an emergency call because my husband got so crazy,” Sanaz Nezami said. Those were some of the final words of Sanaz Nezami. ... Read More »
Below is a photo pictorial showing Iranian female railway attendants hard at work. Tending to travelers comforts, serving them with drinks, snacks and reading material. These trains are assembled locally by “WagonPars“, this partcular trip was between Tehran and Zanjan. Read More »
Louis-François Cartier founded Cartier in Paris in 1847 when he took over the workshop of his master. Twenty-seven years later his son Alfred Cartier took over the company, but it was Louis’ grandsons who were responsible for establishing the brand name worldwide. Cartier is well known for its elegant jewelry and wrist watches. Cartier has a long history of sales ... Read More »
The march toward modernity coincided with Ayatollah Khomeini’s exile to Najaf in 1964, and the assassination of the secular prime minister Hassan Ali Mansour just a few months later. Meanwhile foreign firms, especially American ones, poured into the country. And for a period until the beginning of the revolution in 1978, the old and new coexisted in seeming harmon. [See ... Read More »
Artist Mehdi Ghadyanloo transforms the sides of city buildings with his mind-bending murals. CNN’s Reza Sayah reports. Mehdi Ghadyanloo, is a street artist who has brought over 100 whimsical murals to the walls of the capital. He began began decorating Tehran’s high-rises and office buildings about eight years ago. Read More »
This home is located in Hillsboro Beach, Fla. The property is currently the most expensive home for sale in the United States priced at $139 million. This mansion is called Le Palais Royal, a “Beaux Arts masterpiece” covering more than 60,000 square feet with 11 bedrooms, 17 bathrooms and an IMAX Theatre. It has a 4,500-square-foot infinity-edge pool with an LED-lit ... Read More »
RTV6 – A tweet from Indiana Pacers player Roy Hibbert put an Indianapolis officer in the spotlight Monday. Hibbert posted a picture of an Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officer who got out of his car to give a homeless man a pair of boots near the 30th Street exit ramp off of Interstate 65. Once the image hit Facebook and ... Read More »
The exact date of the first use of ghalyan in Persia is not known. Although the Safavid Shah Abbas I strongly condemned tobacco use, towards the end of his reign smoking ghalyan and copoq had become common on every level of the society, women included. Smoking water-pipes is an age-old tradition with roots in Iran, but its recent resurgence in ... Read More »