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French First Lady Carla Bruni Sarkozy has been branded a "prostitute" and a "marriage breaker" in Iran after she criticised a Tehran court ruling of stoning a woman to death for adultery, a media report said. The 42-year-old former Italian ...

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday inaugurated the country's first domestically built unmanned bomber aircraft, calling it an "ambassador of death" to Iran's enemies. The 4-metre (13 foot) long drone aircraft can carry up to four cruise missiles and will ...

An Iranian news agency says an Iranian fighter jet has crashed in the country's south, near a nuclear power plant. The agency quotes local government official Gholam Reza Keshtkar saying the airforce plane crashed on Tuesday north of Bushehr. Keshtkar ...

Police and health officials say a drive-by shooting outside a mosque and a series of rush-hour bombings have killed seven Iraqis and injured 17 more in and around Baghdad. Gunmen opened fire on worshippers as they were leaving morning prayers ...

Islamic fashion need not be dreary, that's the message of this collection of Islamic fashions in Tehran. And it's images like this that the government hopes will show young people that clothing doesn't have to be revealing to be chic.  ...