Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple ...

Massive cloud of thick smoke billows after fire strikes in Iran port city Bandar Abbas. A reported massive explosion took ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — When the U.S. and Iran met for nuclear talks a decade ... Never argue: 115-year-old British woman, now the world’s oldest, gives her recipe to long life UN memo lays out ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — Sister Inah Canabarro, a Brazilian nun and teacher who was the world’s oldest person ... home in the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre. As a child, Sister Inah Canabarro ...

More than simply expression, street art is often social commentary, resistance and reflection. Striking street art depicting ...

If language distinguishes humans from apes, then the oldest languages in the world are the closest ... Farsi, also known as Persian, is an Indo-European language. It originated in Iran and remains the ...

This period, around 3200 BC, marks the emergence of Iran’s self-sovereignty, making it not only one of the world’s oldest inhabited regions but also the earliest known state to form a recognizable ...

Iranian authorities arrested two people including a government official in connection with a deadly explosion last month at the country's main commercial port, state television reported on Sunday.