
ECONOMY
Iran records 0.7% economic growth
The Iranian economy grows 0.7 percent in a period of nine months.

The Iranian economy grows 0.7 percent in a period of nine months.

Moscow says another group of Russian warplanes left Syria.

Iran’s parliament speaker says Tehran will continue to support Damascus in its battle against terrorism.

A bill controversially extending British authorities’ reach into people’s private lives clears a first major hurdle facing it in the country’s lower house of parliament.

North Korea sentences an American student to 15 years of hard labor.

Donald Trump says as president he will "make our country great again," adding that he would need the rich people to do that.

At least 17 people are killed when a blast hit a bus carrying government employees in northwest Pakistan.

Saudi Arabia and Turkey “have to accept” that their regime change policy “has failed” as Russian troops start withdrawing from crisis-hit Syria.

Twenty-two people are killed as a plane goes down in Ecuador's Amazon region.

ExoMars Orbiter has begun its seven-month-long journey to Mars to find traces of life there.

A top aid to the Syrian president says it is now time for the US to pressure Turkey and Saudi Arabia to stop supporting militants.

US Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio suspends campaign after loss in home state of Florida.

Alan Gross, a former US prisoner in Cuba, calls on the Congress to lift sanctions on the Caribbean island nation.

Amnesty International has called on the UN Human Rights Council to hold Saudi Arabia accountable for its "gross" human rights violations.

Argentina’s coastguard has sunk an illegal Chinese trawler in Argentine territorial waters.

Apple says US government officials can do anything they “dream up” and have requests that would appall the country’s founders.

Turkey has detained a British academic for distributing invitations to a Kurdish gathering to celebrate the Persian New Year

Anonymous has declared “total war” on GOP front runner Donald Trump, vowing to “dismantle” his campaign over his hateful language.