The biggest single component of retail gasoline prices is the cost of the crude oil used to produce the gasoline. Recently, that price of WTI crude oil has been $54-$55 a barrel. In the worldwide oil industry, an oil barrel is defined as 42 US gallons, which is about 159 litres.

Competitors take part in the “EAZY Running of the Brides 7” running contest in Bangkok, Thailand, on Nov. 24, 2018. A total of 300 Thai couples competed in the running event held Saturday in Bangkok in hopes of winning a wedding package worth two million baht (about 60,467 US dollars). (Xinhua/Rachen Sageamsak)

Fereydoun Farrokhzad (October 7, 1938 – August 7, 1992) was an singer, actor, poet, TV and radio host, writer, and iconic opposition political figure. He is best known for his successful variety TV show “Mikhak-e Noghrei” (The Silver Carnation).

Kish resort island in Bandar Lengeh County, Hormozgān Province off the southern coast of homeland in the Persian Gulf . Owing to its free trade zone status, the island is touted as a consumer’s paradise, with numerous malls, shopping centres, tourist attractions, and resort hotels.

Naser Malek Motiee was the much-loved veteran of the golden age of persian cinema in the 1960s and 1970s.The actor and director, who has died aged 88, belonged to a generation of entertainment stars whose careers were cut short by the revolution of 1979. 

Russian advertisers of that time were well aware that promotion was a trade engine, and sex helped to sell products.In the USSR, a car was a luxury, not just a means of transportation. It was received as a gift by the most important people in the country. To buy a ‘Zhiguli’ from an official representative, people waited for five years, …

Saffron is a spice derived from the flower of Crocus sativus, commonly known as the “saffron crocus”. The vivid crimson stigmas and styles, called threads, are collected and dried to be used mainly as a seasoning and colouring agent in food.

Such marriages as are allowed by tradition, or within a culture, will often be symbolic or ritual, instead of the more normal popularity of a marriage.

Unfinished projects, many of them presented for the first time through original storyboard drawings, unveil a Mickey that might have been.