• Spiders can soar on electric fields

    Spiders can soar on electric fields

    Oct 07, 2019 14:14

    Spiders have been observed to have gone as high as two-and-a-half miles up in the air and as far as 1,000 miles out in the sea. It has been believed since ages that spiders cannot fly, due to lack of wings. However, they still go airborne sometimes.

  • Asian Junior Wushu C'ships: Iran win 1 gold, 2 bronze medals

    Asian Junior Wushu C'ships: Iran win 1 gold, 2 bronze medals

    Aug 21, 2019 01:01

    In the 2019 Asian Junior Wushu Championships, young Iranian athletes have pocketed three more medals on the second day of the tournament.

  • Asian Junior Wushu Championships: Iran earn 1 gold, 4 bronze

    Asian Junior Wushu Championships: Iran earn 1 gold, 4 bronze

    Aug 20, 2019 01:51

    Iranian young Wushu practitioners have put-on some good performances on the 1st day of the 2019 Asian Junior Wushu Championships, after pocketing 1 gold and 3 bronze medals.

  • Kyrgyz ex-president's supporters clash with police

    Kyrgyz ex-president's supporters clash with police

    Aug 09, 2019 03:05

    Shots and explosions could be heard overnight in central Bishkek as police dispersed supporters of Kyrgyzstan's former president, who was detained Thursday following violent clashes.

  • US heavily investing in Asia to counter China: Pentagon chief

    US heavily investing in Asia to counter China: Pentagon chief

    Jun 01, 2019 10:48

    Acting US Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan has accused China of undermining the sovereignty of other countries, warning that the administration of President Donald Trump is investing "significantly" in programs needed to ensuring stability in the Indo-Pacific region.

  • We are killing off our vital insects too

    We are killing off our vital insects too

    Mar 04, 2019 12:41

    For decades and centuries, human beings have been engaged in exterminating other creatures on planet earth by their irrational and illogical actions. Many species of animals and insects are already extinct and many others are on the verge of extinction.

  • Asians step up Iran oil imports ahead of US deadline

    Asians step up Iran oil imports ahead of US deadline

    Feb 27, 2019 09:37

    Asian refiners are stepping up their imports of Iranian oil as they face US sanctions waivers expiring in May.

  • Global financial crisis may be just around the corner

    Global financial crisis may be just around the corner

    Feb 13, 2019 09:07

    The cyclical nature of the world economy, when every single decade ends in a major meltdown of the world financial results in a number of experts predicting a global crisis to take place in 2019. Jean Périer, an independent researcher and analyst and a renowned expert on the West Asia, has more in an article titled “Global financial crisis may be just around the corner.”

  • Russia, Europe, Asia interested in Iran cryptomining

    Russia, Europe, Asia interested in Iran cryptomining

    Jan 30, 2019 10:06

    A blockchain and cryptocurrency research lab has been set up in Iran, says the head of the company contracted by the Central Bank of Iran to design and develop a national digital currency.

  • Car bomb at police academy kills 9, wounds several in Colombian capital

    Car bomb at police academy kills 9, wounds several in Colombian capital

    Jan 18, 2019 06:49

    At least nine people have lost their lives after a car bomb was detonated in Colombia’s capital Bogota in what the authorities condemned as a terror attack.