What's the Persian alphabet like? Have a go at spelling out your name and perhaps your address in Persian. Here's the alphabet and how to pronounce it.

In the winter of 1982 in Rochester, New York, Jim Krauseneck says he came home from work to find his wife, Cathleen Krauseneck, lying in bed, dead with an ax lodged in her head. For over 30 years ...

Persian is spoken today primarily in Iran, but was historically a more widely understood language in an area ranging from the Middle East to India. Significant populations of speakers in other Persian ...

The new restaurant on North Eastern Avenue has just five counter seats facing a small kitchen and an outdoor patio that seats ...

Now, six years on, police have announced a major break in the case, alleging that she was choked to death in the back of a car and dismembered using an ax, with two suspects now facing charges.

Investigators said that Abbey at some point in the evening hit Kjersem with a piece of wood, stabbed him in the neck with a screwdriver, and then chopped him with an ax. Police are still trying to ...

Criterion (iii): The Persian Qanat system is an exceptional testimony to the tradition of providing water to arid regions to support settlements. The technological and communal achievements of the ...

Preheat the oven to 170C/160C Fan/Gas 3½. Brush the bundt tin with melted butter, being careful to get into every corner, and dust with flour, shaking to coat the tin, then turn it upside-down ...

Millions of people around the world have celebrated Nowruz - a festival that marks the Persian New Year and the official beginning of spring. Nowruz begins at the spring equinox, when the sun ...

In my case, after using that ax I’d almost certainly gear up to go ice-fishing through ... In the coming weeks I’ll be reading Dick Davis’s translation of Nezami Ganjavi’s romantic Persian epic, ...