Serena Williams marched into the semifinals of the US Open for the ninth consecutive time with an assured 6-4 6-3 win over eighth seed Karolina Pliskova Tuesday in New York.
It is the…
High-profile club coaches from across Asia including several from the AFC Champions League quarterfinalists gathered in Shanghai on Wednesday for the AFC’s Third Elite Club Coaches Forum.
A tiny Alaska Native village has experienced a boom in tourism in recent years as polar bears spend more time on land than on diminishing Arctic sea ice.
More than 2,000 people visited…
One of Japan’s busiest airports remained closed indefinitely after the strongest typhoon to hit Japan in at least 25 years flooded a runway and other facilities while damaging other…
Norway's $1 trillion sovereign wealth fund wants companies in which it invests to follow stricter guidelines on global sustainability and strengthen efforts to combat plastic pollution of the…
Museum of Fine Arts at Sa’dabad Cultural-Historical Complex in north Tehran has opened a new wing with an inaugural exhibition of paintings by a renowned veteran painter.
The new gallery…
Actor Shahab Hosseini has joined the cast of “The Night,” a thriller movie to be directed by Iranian-American film director and producer Kourosh Ahari.
Hosseini, who is remembered for…
The tragic drama “Dash Akol” based on a namesake short story by eminent fiction writer Sadeq Hedayat (1903-51) is on the screen.
Traditional and pop singer Hojat Ashrafzadeh has started collaboration with German electronic band Schiller in its new album.
The German group, named after celebrated poet and dramatist…
Selected cinemas are showing the social drama “Compulsory” directed by Hamidreza Refaee.
The film seeks to recognize and highlight the value of fathers. Karim, who is completing his…
Sarv Cultural House in Tehran hosted a program on old songs and ballads composed during the 1930s to 1970s in Tehran on Tuesday. The program was attended by music researchers and experts. A…
Macan Band will perform September 8 on southern Kish Island.
The celebrated pop music group will stage a midnight concert at the Persian Gulf tourist island’s City Hall with selected…
Shafaq Cultural Center in Tehran is to hold a ceremony to commemorate celebrated Iranian writer Jalal Al-e Ahmad (1923-1969) on his 49th death anniversary.
Jordan’s unemployment rate during the second quarter of 2018 was 18.7%, according to the department of statistics quarterly report on the unemployment rate in the kingdom, Albawaba reported. The…
Amazon became the second big US company to hit $1 trillion in stock market value in the latest demonstration of the rising clout of American technology heavyweights.
The online retail…
Markets have a very short attention span. Like babies, they move on quickly from one toy, or in this case an event, to another.
For instance, markets seem to have moved on from the…
Argentina “made progress” on Tuesday in talks with the International Monetary Fund aimed at securing an accelerated disbursement of a $50 billion loan it hopes will calm its debilitating…
Egypt is targeting a budget deficit of 8.4% of GDP for the 2018-19 fiscal year that ends in June, compared with 9.8% in the previous year, Finance Minister Mohamed Maait told a news conference…
With the stock market listing of its national oil company stalled, Saudi Arabia is scrambling to boost the coffers of the sovereign wealth fund spearheading a risky plan to diversify its economy…
Mercedes showed on Tuesday how it is “aggressively” gunning for top spot in upscale battery cars market currently dominated by Tesla, as it unveiled the EQC, its first fully electric car, at an…
Toyota Motor Corp. is recalling more than a million of its Prius and C-HR compact crossover vehicles globally due to the risk of fire. Of the 1.03 million affected vehicles, 554,000 will be…
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Bank Maskan, the state-run agent bank of the housing sector, is considering the possibility of increasing the ceiling of home loans while reducing their interest rates to boost the people's…
The administration of President Hassan Rouhani has accepted crpytocurrency mining as an industry that needs to be developed in Iran, the secretary of the High Council of Cyberspace said.
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President of Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture called for the total elimination of cheap currency offered at the 42,000-rial exchange rate. Speaking at the 77th…
