Four apps for kids, developed by Iranian companies, were selected on Sunday as the best at the closing ceremony of Koodakonline, a festival on creating appropriate content for children and young adults. The kids’ launcher Nabat, children messaging app Medad, story and song application Touchstan and the application for children animation Aio Tune were named...Read More

Iran Fails to Qualify for Women’s Olympic Qualifiers Round 3   Iran’s women’s football team lost to Chinese Taipei and failed to seal ticket to Round 3 of the AFC Women’s Olympic Football Tournament Qualifiers. On Tuesday, Maryam Azmoun’s side lost to its rival 4-1 in Doha’s Grand Hamad Stadium. Iran knew a win would...Read More

100 female rescuers helping flood-stricken people in Khuzestan   A number of one hundred female rescuers are helping people in flood-stricken areas of the southwestern province of Khuzestan, said Hamid Qavidel, a representative for the Relief and Rescue Organization of the Red Crescent Society. he female rescue team provides the vulnerable flood-stricken women and children...Read More

UN Women’s texting video series nominated for a Webby Award   For three years in a row, UN Women has been nominated for a Webby Award, a prestigious international award honouring excellence on the Internet. UN Women’s “Changing the narrative – texting video series to end violence against women” has been nominated under the “Public...Read More

Slovenian Diplomats Meet Iran’s Women Entrepreneurs   Iran and Slovenia discussed ways of improving bilateral economic and trade cooperation.   Director General for Economic and Public Diplomacy at the Slovenian Foreign Ministry Alenka Suhadolnik met with President of Tehran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture Masoud Khansari in Tehran on Monday. The meeting was...Read More

Man Booker International shortlist dominated by female authors and translators   In an unprecedented gender split, women dominated the 2019 Man Booker International shortlist, with five female authors and an all-female cast of translators up for the £50,000 prize. Whittled down from 108 books in 25 languages to six books in five languages – Arabic,...Read More

Last month was supposed to be marked by the first all-women spacewalk — an event that NASA was forced to put on the backburner because of a shortage of suitably-sized spacesuits. So instead of NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Christina Koch suiting up and venturing outside the International Space Station, Ms Koch accompanied fellow NASA astronaut Nick Hague....Read More

Average life-expectancy globally has increased by five-and-a-half years since the turn of the century, and women outlive men “everywhere”, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday. “Whether it’s homicide, road accidents, suicide, cardiovascular disease – time and time again, men are doing worse than women”, said Dr. Richard Cibulskis, main author of WHO’s World...Read More

Australia’s dual 100m hurdles world champion Sally Pearson Sunday pulled out of her first competitive event in more than a year, saying her body was “overheating”, in a blow to her comeback plans. The 32-year-old, who won the world title in 2011 and 2017, hadn’t competed over the hurdles since an Achilles problem sidelined her...Read More

Iranian short documentary “Lotus” directed by Mohamadreza Vatandoust will attend Beirut International Film Festival’s competition section. In its fourteenth presence in international festivals, Lotus will represent Iran in the 18th Beirut International Film Festival, which is due to be held April 22-28 in Lebanon’s capital. The film is expected to be screened on April 22....Read More