India halts plan to ship cheetahs from Africa
India's Supreme Court has halted a plan to re-introduce cheetahs to the country by shipping animals over from Africa after experts said the idea was "totally misconceived".
View ArticleIran to sue Google over dropping Persian Gulf name
(AP) -- Iran says it will sue Google over dropping the name of the Persian Gulf on Google Maps.
View ArticleGlobal wave of Flame cyber attacks called staggering
(Phys.org) -- Kaspersky Lab has discovered complex malware that has been in operation for at least five years, collecting data from countries including both Israel and Iran. Kaspersky experts think the...
View ArticleIran seeks to work with Facebook against porn
(AP) A semi-official Iranian news agency says police hope to work with Facebook to fight cyber-crimes and pornography a turnabout in Tehran's stance toward the social networking giant that it...
View ArticleNew 'Gauss' virus found by Russia's Kaspersky Lab (Update)
A new computer virus tied to some of the most sophisticated cyberweapons thus-far discovered has been found circulating in the Middle East, a Moscow-based computer security company said Thursday. If a...
View Article2010 Korea bomb 'tests' probably false alarms, says study
(Phys.org)—This spring, a Swedish scientist sparked international concern with a journal article saying that radioactive particles detected in 2010 showed North Korea had set off at least two small...
View ArticleIran: Drone hit by Israel not 'latest' technology
(AP)—Iran's defense minister says his country has drones far more advanced than the unmanned aircraft launched by Lebanon's Hezbollah and downed by Israel earlier this month.
View ArticleUN nuclear agency reports being hacked
(AP)—The International Atomic Energy Agency acknowledged Tuesday that one of its servers had been hacked after a previously unknown group critical of Israel's undeclared nuclear weapons program posted...
View ArticleIran's version of YouTube hits the Web
(AP)—Iran says it has launched a video-sharing website in the latest move to create government-sanctioned alternatives to Internet powerhouses such as YouTube.
View ArticleUS warns of treaty snub over Internet rules
(AP)—The chief American delegate at a U.N. conference weighing possible Internet rules says the U.S. may snub the final document over proposals interpreted as giving governments greater oversight over...
View ArticleIran designing software for controlled social media access (Update)
Iran is designing "intelligent software" that would give citizens restricted and controlled access to banned social networking sites, local media on Sunday quoted police chief Esmaeil Ahmadi Moghadam...
View ArticleIran successfully sends monkey into space (Update)
Iran took a "big step" towards sending astronauts into space by 2020, successfully launching a monkey above the Earth's atmosphere, Defence Minister Ahmad Vahidi told state television.
View ArticleReport: Stuxnet cyberweapon older than believed (Update)
The sophisticated cyberweapon which targeted an Iranian nuclear plant is older than previously believed, an anti-virus company said Tuesday, peeling back another layer of mystery on a series of attacks...
View ArticleReport: Iran blocks VPN access to Gmail, Yahoo
(AP)—Iranian authorities have blocked many foreign-based virtual private networks, or VPNs, severely restricting access to many websites.
View ArticleReport: Iran opens national email service
Iranian state television says the country has opened its own domestically made national email service.
View ArticleThe endemic species of remarkable Fulgoromorpha from Iran
In terms of biodiversity richness, Iran is considered as an extremely complex area with wide ranges in the extremes of altitude, climate and temperature. The high biodiversity of the Iranian fauna is...
View ArticlePeculiar, diverse and dangerous to crops: A checklist of the scale insects of...
A detailed annotated checklist of the scale insects of Iran, describing a total of 275 species from 13 families, represents a first effort towards a better knowledge of the Coccoidea family in attempt...
View ArticleIran plans new monkey space launch
Iran is planning to send another live monkey into space within a month, a top space official said in remarks reported by media Sunday.
View ArticleIsrael's new missile defense system passes test
Israel successfully tested its newest missile defense system on Wednesday, a key step toward making the third and final leg of the country's three-part defense system operational by next year, the...
View ArticleIran sends second monkey into space
Iran said on Saturday that it had safely returned a monkey to Earth after blasting it into space in the second such launch this year in its controversial ballistic programme.
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