At least 59 people died and more than 250 were injured in a blaze that raged through a Tehran mosque after a female worshipper’s veil caught fire from a kerosene heater, Iran’s official news agency reported.

At least 59 people died and more than 200 were injured today when a fire blazed through a central Tehran mosque during evening prayers, Iran’s official news agency reported.

Iraqi voters, hoping to restore order and security to their troubled nation, filed into schools and other makeshift polling stations in neighbouring nations today to cast ballots in their nation’s first democratic election in half a century.