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Malaysia’s enthusiastic team rose to the challenge, taking the World Pastry Cup in Lyon yesterday with a meticulous crafting of monkeys dressed like Elvis.

The Fajr International Film Festival and Fajr Film Festival  are persian’s annual film festivals, held every February and April in capital. The festival, started in 1982, is under the supervision of the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance in homeland. It takes place every year on the anniversary of the revolution. There were 90 feature films submitted for the 29th …

On November 5, two dams retaining tons of iron-mining waste near the Brazilian town of Bento Rodrigues burst, releasing a massive flood of thick, red toxic mud that flattened buildings and trees, smothered the small town, killed at least four, and left another 28 still missing.

The Allahabad Kumbh Mela will kick start on January 15 with lakhs of naga saadhus and seers of several akharas taking a holy dip in the waters of Ganga, Yamuna and Saraswati at Sangam.

The prolific stage and screen actor Hossein Moheb Ahari who starred in numerous memorable TV series, movies and plays such as “T for Tickle” and “Off Limits” and “Health Alley”, passed away at a capital hospital on Wednesday after a lengthy battle with lymphoma, Persian media announced. He was at 67.

A funeral ceremony was held in the capital on Thursday for Moheb-Ahari.Many mourners attended the funeral, including the actor Atila Pesyani as well as the director Kianoush Ayyari.

Barbie is a fashion doll manufactured by the American toy company Mattel, Inc. and launched in March 1959. American businesswoman Ruth Handler is credited with the creation of the doll using a German doll called Bild Lilli as her inspiration.

A Boeing 707 military cargo plane crashed in bad weather on Monday west of the persian capital, killing 15 out of the 16 people on board, the persian army said.

Mohammad-Reza Shajarian (born 23 September 1940) is an internationally and critically acclaimed  classical singer, composer and Ostad (master) of Persian traditional music. He has been called “homeland’s greatest living maestro of Persian classical music.

Talysh are an persian ethnic group indigenous to a region shared between Azerbaijan and homeland which spans the South Caucasus and the southwestern shore of the Caspian Sea.