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.

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.

Iran’s state TV says it will air new footage of an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, the latest in state-orchestrated broadcasts on the case that has caused an international outcry.

AN Iranian woman who was sentenced to death by stoning for adultery is now facing a new punishment of 99 lashes because a British newspaper ran a picture of an unveiled woman mistakenly identified as her, the woman’s son said yesterday.

The son of an Iranian woman who faces death by stoning for adultery said authorities have imposed a new sentence of 99 lashes.

The lawyer of a woman at the centre of an international outcry after she was sentenced to death by stoning in Iran is in Turkey and has the option of applying for asylum, the UN’s refugee agency said today.

Unesco added five cultural sites to its World Heritage List, including the Imperial Citadel of Thang Long-Hanoi in Vietnam.

Two prominent critics of the Iranian government have been arrested after clashes overnight in Tehran.

International human rights organisations today warned that many prominent activists and politicians have been arrested in Iran in response to protests over the country's disputed presidential election.

A major Irish sale of antique rugs is to go under the hammer today.

One of the biggest-ever Irish sales of antique rugs goes under the hammer this week. The auction featuring 139 carpets features an early 18th Century French tapestry that could fetch up to €25,000.

The Iranian government today closed one of its own newspapers for publishing a cartoon deemed as insulting to the Azeri minority in north-western Iran.

A Gulf Air Boeing-332 en route from London made an emergency landing in north-western Iran this morning after its cockpit reported a passenger’s heart failure, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported.