Uzbekistan stunned hosts Iran 1-0 here at Azadi Stadium in a 2014 World Cup qualifier.

Ulugbek Bakaev scored the only goal of the match in the 71st minute Wednesday with an assist by Server Djeparov,

Ten people were killed today when a rescue helicopter ferrying wounded people from a car accident to hospital hit power lines and crashed to the ground in northeastern Iran, media reported.

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Iran will press on with its nuclear programme despite the problems caused by Western sanctions, including a dramatic slide in the value of its currency, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday.

Iran's Revolutionary Guards said it test fired medium-range surface-to-air missiles designed to knock attacking aircraft out of the sky at a range of 50 kilometres.

The test of the new defence syste

Iran blocked access to Google's popular and relatively secure Gmail service on Monday amid first steps by the Islamic republic to establish a walled-off national intranet separate from the worldwide I

Strongly pitching for coordinated global actions against international terrorism and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday asked the Non-Aligned Movem

Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei on Thursday berated the UN Security Council as a 'flagrant form of dictatorship' while terming the US and its Western allies as 'bullies' trying to monopoli

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari on Thursday began a key meeting here, amid clear indications that terrorism will be the prime focus of the Indian side.
The meeti

Ahead of a possible meeting between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, India on Tuesday made a clear distinction between Mumbai terror attacks and Samjhauta train

Iran opened a world gathering of self-described non-aligned nations on Sunday with a slap at the U.N. Security Council and an appeal to rid the world of nuclear weapons even as Tehran faces Western su