Among the olive trees in northwestern Syria, displaced teenager Wissam Diab plucks an oud outside his new home, a tent surrounded by luscious plants.

In a bid to revive the tourism industry in the valley, the tour operators in Jammu and Kashmir are gearing up for the upcoming winter season amid the COVID-19 outbreak.

China hailed as a success its pre-dawn launch on Tuesday of a robotic spacecraft to bring back rocks from the Moon in the first bid by any country to retrieve lunar surface samples since the 1970s.

Greenhouse gas concentrations climbed to a new record in 2019 and rose again this year despite an expected drop in emissions due to COVID-19 lockdowns, the World Meteorological Organization said, warning against complacency.

Russian Daniil Medvedev said he wants to be part of a new series of long-running rivalries in men’s tennis after beating Dominic Thiem to win the ATP Finals title on Sunday.

FIFA’s Independent Ethics Committee handed the president of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), Ahmad Ahmad, a five-year ban from all football-related activities.

Napoli head coach Gennaro Gattuso believes Zlatan Ibrahimovic is better now than he was 10 to 12 years ago following his match-winning display for AC Milan.

Iranian documentary ‘Asho’ received the Grand Prize at the 40th edition of the Amiens International Film Festival (AIFF) in France, held from November 13 to 21.

Renovation of the most ancient clock tower, located in Moshir-ol-Saltaneh Mosque in the Iranian capital of Tehran, started Monday, said the mayor for District 11 of Tehran Municipality.

Institutionalizing the social concept of resistance is one of the functions of the 16th Resistance International Film Festival (RIFF) and, with the actions taken in this festival, resistance finds a broader meaning, said the Cinema Organization of Iran (COI) director, Hossein Entezami.