Iran's swine flu fatalities have reached triple digits as 42 new confirmed deaths reported this week brings the toll of the fatal disease to 100.

American and Egyptian scientists have found traces of heart disease in Egyptian mummies, some of which date back to 3,500 years ago.

Russian icebreaker Captain Khlebnikov, which was trapped in ice in Antarctica on Friday, has started to move again after five days.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has declared that over 1.2 billion people across the globe are starving.

Twenty-three people have died in a landslide in China's northern province of Shanxi amid unseasonably early snowfall and bitter cold.

The United States and China have been called the 'biggest failures' on climate change, as hopes of forging a final deal to combat global warming diminish.

'Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2', a gory computer game that crosses the line with controversial scenes, has raked in an estimated $310 million in North America and the UK on its first day of release, a report says.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon opens a UN food security summit in Rome, while the plight of the world's hungry people seemed trivial to the leaders of the world's wealthiest nations.

Education officials in Tehran have succeeded in bringing A-H1N1 flu virus under control in schools and dropping the number of infected students from 17 to 6.

As around 60 heads of state prepare to take part in the World Summit on Food Security, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is set to join a symbolic 24-hour fast.

A long-lost three-year-old girl taken to Tehran for treatment after the chemical bombing of the Kurdish town of Halabja by Saddam in the 1980s is discovered to have been buried in Tehran's largest cemetery.

Strong sandstorms caused by winds up to 80 km have wreaked havoc on Zabol in the Iranian province of Sistan and Balochestan on the border with both Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Leaders at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit have failed to agree on a final climate deal, ahead of the upcoming UN backed Copenhagen climate meeting.

United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Director, Jacques Diouf, holds a hunger strike to highlight the plight of the hungry ahead of a global food summit.

Iranian researchers have successfully managed to develop a safe and natural substitute for artificial sweeteners from an herb known as Stevia.

At least nine people have been killed and more than 80 injured when a speeding train derailed in western India.

On the Guinness World Records Day, an Indian has set a world record by pulling a seven-ton vintage double-decker bus 21.2 meters with his hair.

Veteran Iranian actor, Jamshid Layeq, whose significant work captured the hearts of many Iranian art-lovers, has passed away.

Twenty movies have been submitted for the 2010 Oscars consideration, five of which will compete in the Best Animated Feature category.

Swine flu has claimed the lives of 58 people across Iran as the national tally of infections passes 2660, the country's Health Ministry said.

Officials predict a surge in the number of cancer deaths in Africa unless certain policies are adopted in the upcoming decade to reduce the continent's increasing number of smokers.

Experts have warned that koalas, which are confined to forests in Australia's east and south, could be extinct within decades.

A British man has sent a photo of himself to the media to replace the mugshot printed of him as a house burglary wanted.

Flash floods and landslides triggered by heavy rain in southern India have killed 41 people in one day of downpours, expected to continue over the next day.

At least two people have lost their lives and 28 others have been seriously wounded as a bus carrying Iranian pilgrims overturned in Syria.

Iranian education officials have closed 68 schools in the southwestern Kohkiloyeh-Boyerahmad province over fears an A-H1N1 flu virus spread.

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch says he will explore ways to block Google from using news content from his global empire.

Belarusian officials have temporarily closed schools in the country over fears of the rapid spread of the H1N1 flu virus.

Red tide is spreading around the coasts off the United Arab Emirates in the Persian Gulf, killing off multiple species of corals and reducing fish populations of the region.

Clashes between Iranian security forces and gunmen have blocked a motorway linking the capital to the city of Karaj located in the west of Tehran Province, reports say.

A balanced parenting style combining warmth and discipline has been found to play an important role in the social development of children.

A German expert will attend talks with Egyptian antiquities authorities next month to discuss Egypt's demand for the return of a 3500-year-old bust of Queen Nefertiti.

A never-seen-before Charlie Chaplin film has been discovered in a can of nitrate film by a buyer on eBay who bought it for less than four pounds.

Iranian Health officials have reported 19 new student cases of A/H1N1 in Tehran townships, resulting in the closure of 270 classrooms in the province.

Italian family physicians refuse to prescribe the A/H1N1 vaccine for their patients, claiming that the risks of the vaccine outweigh its benefits.

Iranian authorities have recovered the bodies of two persons missing from a cruise ship, which sank earlier off the port city of Genaveh in the southern Bushehr Province.

A South Korean woman has managed to pass the written exam for a driver's license after 950 attempts over a four-year period of relentless endeavor.

A US army major, assigned to be deployed overseas, has killed 13 people and wounded 30 others at the Fort Hood Army post, the worst mass shooting ever at a military base in the US.

A huge fire in the main market of the northwestern Iranian city of Tabriz has decimated more than one hundred stores.

Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin will co-host the upcoming Oscars, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced.

UN officials claim some $39 billion is needed over the next six years in order to fight pneumonia, the leading cause of death among young children.

Health officials have announced that swine flu has already claimed the lives of 33 Iranians, bringing the national tally to 2,153.

President Barack Obama's half brother has broken silence to launch his novel on a painful childhood with an abusive father.

Over 17,000 species assessed in a major international biodiversity study are threatened with extinction, a leading environmental group has warned.

A 4.9-magnitude earthquake has left about 700 people injured in the port city of Bandar Abbas and Qeshm island in southern Iran.

World-renowned French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss has passed away at the age of 100.

The Barcelona-based Galactic Suite Ltd. says it will be ready to serve space tourists in the first space hotel by the year 2012.

Soon after Germany started the country's largest immunization campaign to fight swine flu, many have criticized the government for its preferential treatment.

Al-Alam News Network says two satellites operators based in Egypt and Saudi Arabia have stopped broadcasting the news channel without prior notice.

Following reports of a blaze in one of the Iranian capital's subway stations, a senior official with Tehran's metro company rejects the claim, saying that no disruption was caused in train services.

An earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale has rattled western Greece, with no immediate reports of injuries or major damage.

An Iranian health official says 3,000 Iranian citizens have been infected with the A-H1N1 flu across the country as the virus's death toll reached 28.

Iranian officials report 190 Umrah pilgrims have been arrested in Saudi Arabia for carrying narcotics during their pilgrimage.

The producer of The Lord of the Rings and The Matrix has discussed spending $150 million on making a movie about the Prophet Muhammad.

Five new confirmed cases of swine flu have been reported in Tehran, bringing the total number of the cases of students affected by swine flu in Tehran to 17.

An Iranian-registered cargo ship has gone aground off east China's coast at the estuary of the Yangtze River.

The number of cases infected with the mosquito borne virus, dengue fever, is increasing in many parts of Southeast Asia and India.

After a prayer's leader was killed during an alleged shootout with federal agents in the US, another mosque leader in the city of Detroit says his killing was pre-arranged.

Rocket scientist and father of China's space technology program, Qian Xuesen has died at the age of 98 in the capital city of Beijing.

Archeologists say the world's oldest submerged town, located off the southern Laconia coast of Greece, dates back to 5,000 years ago.