Johansson released two albums between 2008 and 2009 — one was a solo project and the other was a collaboration with Pete Yorn. Her debut album, “Anywhere I Lay My Head,” was mostly her covers of Tom Waits songs but featured collaborations with David Bowie and some members of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

The Council of the Islamic Revolution was a group formed by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to manage the Revolution on 10 January 1979, shortly before he returned to homeland.

The high-profile trial of former capital Mohammad Ali Najafi on charges that he killed his second wife has started, persian media reported.Najafi appeared in a capital criminal court on July 13, accused of shooting his second wife, Mitra Ostad, at their home in the persian capital.

Besides a pyrotechnic show and a number of folklore-related events, the San Fermin festival is famous for the encierro, or the running of the bulls that rarely ends without injuries for its participants.Over one million people participate in the festival annually.Sputnik has gathered the most impressive photos of the fiesta for you.

Mohammad-Taqi Bahar (1886 – 1951), is a renowned Iranian poet and scholar, who was also a politician, journalist, historian and Professor of Literature. Although he was a 20th-century poet, his poems are fairly traditional and strongly nationalistic in character.

“The typical American meal of meat and potatoes may taste good, but it isn’t very colorful or loaded with balanced nutrition,” says Abby Sauer, RD, MPH, a dietician at Abbott. “Even though they may be favorite foods, plain pasta, rice, and bread don’t add much color to your meals and don’t add much nutrition in terms of essential vitamins and …

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, en route to the G20 meetings in Japan this weekend, made an official and high-level visit to South Korea in a sign of strong ties between the two nations.

An otherwise undistinguished estate sale purchase yielded an incredible archive of never-before publicly seen photographs of the Ground Zero clean-up operation, providing a haunting glimpse of 9/11’s immediate aftermath.

in addition to a number of historical monuments in homeland, when you travel to homeland you will understand about the diversity of cuisine in the country. Not only type of dishes, but also sweets, pickles, pastry, and bread!There are four types of bread which are very popular and mostly used by people, named Barbari, Sangak, Taftoon, and Lavash.

The games with regulated international professional competition, if not others, have been referred to as “sports” or “sporting” events, not simply “games”, since 1893 at the latest.