The recent idea of relocating the capital from Tehran is the latest in a string of proposals floated by multiple administrations to move the government from the sprawling city of 15 million people.

People in major Iranian cities are struggling with another bout of poor air quality as a cold wave is extending its grip over the country, trapping pollutants in the heavy air.

Western media is accusing the Lancet of blood libel after the British medical journal warned that the true death toll of the Israeli war on Gaza could exceed 186,000.

China’s population declines for a second straight year despite Beijing's efforts to increase marriage and childbirth in families.

A former Israeli official says Palestinians must be driven out of their homeland and deprived of their property, calling on Western governments to take in the displaced population in the Gaza Strip as the occupying regime’s genocidal war on the besieged territory enters its fourth month.

In Rome, academics have joined a conference called "How to get rid of a population".

There was a time when countries thought fewer or no children would give them more welfare. But now, the shrinking population has become a huge threat staring many nations in the eye.