The former Iran and Persepolis striker spoke to Goal.com about the current predicament of football in his homeland, claiming the game is in a bad way in the West Asian nation
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - To celebrate Chinese New Year last month, Dubai's swankiest hotel bathed its sail-shaped facade in red lighting accented with an image of a twisting golden dragon.
Anything deemed un-Islamic — from dolls to water pistols to snow skiing — is considered fair game for censure
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Here are a selection of brief news items from this week's paper edition, and possibly a few news briefs that didn't make it in the paper.
(Iran Sports Press): The recent feud between Ali Daei, and Ali Parvin, two of Iran’s best ever football players, has been the headline news in most Iranian papers over the past few days, and it has overshadowed most other stories in Iran. But is this really necessary?
Madrid, Feb 7: Spanish cyclist Alberto Contador has no plans to retire after being banned for two years and being stripped of his 2010 Tour de France title.
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The World Photography Organisation announces the shortlist for the 2012 Sony World Photography Awards.
Average retail gasoline prices in Chattanooga have fallen 1.8 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $3.23 per gallon on Sunday.
The media response to sheep shearing’s potential as a Commonwealth Games demonstration sport, if not the Olympics, has gone international. “Shearing as a demonstration sport has gone viral,” says Jeanette Maxwell, Federated Farmers Meat & Fibre chairperson.
The nearly two-year-old federal investigation into allegations that cycling legend Lance Armstrong used and distributed performance-enhancing drugs came to an abrupt end Friday when the office leading the multitiered probe announced it was shutting it down. Read full article >>
Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), one of the key Republican figures of South Carolina and leader of the Tea Party, talks to Erica Hill about the latest GOP presidential debate.
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New numbers show the U.S. added 243,000 jobs in January. Charlie Rose, Gayle King, and Erica Hill speak with former Obama and Clinton administration economic official Larry Summers about the direction of the U.S. economy.
Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov likes to remind his countrymen that the development of sport is a national priority. You might think then that sports would be comprehensively covered in the servile local press, and yet there was barely any news of the country's performance at the football Commonwealth of Independent States Cup that ended January 29 in St. Petersburg, Russia ...
