Police in Iran have arrested two people who appeared in an online video of young people singing and dancing in support of the country’s World Cup football team, the official IRNA news agency said.

An Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery confesses to helping a man kill her husband in a re-enactment on state television – the latest state-orchestrated broadcast in a case that has raised an international outcry.

Mohammad Taheri fainted when his mother’s body was unearthed today, one of the victims of an earthquake in Iran that destroyed about 100 villages and killed 220 people.