FRENCH BAGUETTES SHOULD BE UNESCO-LISTED TREASURES

Unesco's Lists of Intangible Cultural Heritage is different from its register of places, known as World Heritage Sites... READ MORE›

BEIJING HELPS BELT ROAD NATIONS SAVE RELICS

The temples, listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site, were damaged in a 2016 earthquake... READ MORE›

BRITAIN'S HADRIAN'S WALL, CHINA'S GREAT WALL TO WORK TOGETHER IN UNIQUE HERITAGE PARTNERSHIP

A unique agreement that will see Britain's Hadrian's Wall and the Great Wall of China work together, was announced last Tuesday by Heritage Minister John Glenn... READ MORE›

NAPLES PIZZA TWIRLING SEEKS NOD AS UNESCO 'INTANGIBLE' HERITAGE

Naples' art of pizza twirling is a candidate to join UNESCO's list of intangible heritage this week along with a wealth of other cultural treasures such... READ MORE›

WORLD HERITAGE SITES THREATENED BY CLIMATE CHANGE NEARLY DOUBLES SINCE 2014

Latest findings have revealed that climate change impacts one in four natural World Heritage sites, including coral reefs, glaciers, and wetlands... READ MORE›

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HUMANITARIAN CRISIS EVOKES EUROPES DARKEST HOUR

In Europe, we benefited from humanitarian assistance and the acceptance of refugees after the disaster that was World War II, Mr. Roth said... READ MORE›

AS MIGRANT TRAGEDIES SHOCK EUROPE A BIGGER CRISIS LOOMS IN MIDEAST

The United Nations is urging countries worldwide to grant asylum to 130,000 Syrians in the coming year... READ MORE›

A 92-YEAR-OLD BRITISH VETERAN HAS JUST OFFERED HIS SPARE ROOM TO SYRIAN REFUGEES

British armed forces veteran, 92, offers up his spare room to house desperate Syrian refugees... READ MORE›

ISIS BLOWS UP TEMPLE AT SYRIAS PALMYRA RUINS

The entire ancient city of Palmyra is a Unesco World Heritage site... READ MORE›

PALMYRA'S BAALSHAMIN TEMPLE 'BLOWN UP BY IS'

Islamic State militants have blown up the ancient temple of Baalshamin at Palmyra, Syrian officials and activists say... READ MORE›

ISIS ATTACKS IRAQI ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE

Last week, Islamic State militants videotaped themselves destroying statues and artifacts in the Mosul Museum and at the Nergal Gate entryway to ancient Nineveh... READ MORE›

MYANMAR IS RESTORING TEMPLES TO REBUILD ITS HERITAGE

It damaged 389 of Bagan's monuments, and broke Pyathat Gyi's spire as if it were one of her candies... READ MORE›

ISIS BULLDOZING OF ANCIENT NIMRUD SITE IN IRAQ STIRS OUTRAGE

The agency said that screenshots of the Defense Department system had been posted online, apparently to prove that the cyberattack had been successful... READ MORE›

AYLAN KURDI'S FATHER IS A PEOPLE SMUGGLER, WOMAN CLAIMS

Mr Kurdi has now returned to Syria and the ruins of the city of Kobani the home he and his family had fled... READ MORE›

'WHY IS THE WORLD SO QUIET?' YEMEN SUFFERS ITS OWN CRUEL LOSSES, FAR FROM ALEPPO.

KAWKABAN, Yemen -- The majestic fortress nestled atop a mountain here in northwestern Yemen survived the armies of the Islamic warrior Saladin in the 12th century... READ MORE›

'UNESCO-CIDE': DOES WORLD HERITAGE STATUS DO CITIES MORE HARM THAN GOOD?

For George Town and its clan jetties, the Unesco imprimatur seemingly provided a second wind... READ MORE›

SYRIAN TODDLER AYLAN'S FATHER DROVE CAPSIZED BOAT, OTHER PASSENGERS SAY

Abu Hussein told me that he Kurdi was the one who organized this trip, he said... READ MORE›

COUNTRIES WITH CORAL REEFS MUST DO MORE ON CLIMATE CHANGE - UNESCO

The new decision builds on that assessment, clarifying the responsibility of countries with custodianship over world-heritage listed coral reefs... READ MORE›

EXPLOSION DESTROYS ANCIENT SITE IN YEMEN CAPITAL

Two weeks ago, the United Nations General Assembly unanimously passed a resolution aimed at thwarting and prosecuting antiquities vandals and smugglers... READ MORE›

AUSTRALIA LOOKS SET TO START BOMBING SYRIA AS LIBERALS WARN AGAINST TOO MUCH COMPASSION FOR REFUGEES

Australia looks set to start bombing Syria as Libs warn against too much refugee compassion... READ MORE›

EUROPE'S CURRENT ANTI-MIGRANT RHETORIC CARRIES ECHOES OF 1930S ANTI-SEMITISM

Even during World War II, let alone before it started, antisemitism was rife in American political and public life... READ MORE›

RUSSIA TO U.S.: TALK TO US ON SYRIA OR RISK 'UNINTENDED INCIDENTS'

Russia to U.S. talk to us on Syria or risk 'unintended incidents'... READ MORE›

70 YEARS LATER HOW WORLD WAR II CHANGED AMERICA

Even as World War II was ending 70 years ago, Americans already knew it had transformed their country... READ MORE›

ISLAMIC STATE MILITANTS BLOW UP ANCIENT ARCH OF TRIUMPH IN PALMYRA

Islamic State has declared a caliphate in territory it holds across Syria and Iraq and has destroyed other monuments it says are pagan and sacrilegious... READ MORE›

ISIL 'BEHEADS TOP ARCHAEOLOGIST IN PALMYRA'

Isil extremists behead antiquities scholar khaled al-asaad in ancient syrian city of palmyra a government official said... READ MORE›

ISLAMIC STATEDAMAGES TEMPLE OFBAAL IN PALMYRA

Fighting in the region continued Sunday, with Islamic State fighters clashing with other militants in southern Damascus, according to The Associated Press... READ MORE›

ISIS ARE HELL-BENT ON DESTROYING CENTURIES OF HUMAN KNOWLEDGE

The mining town's new neighbours who are half a world away... READ MORE›

A reef campaigner with the Australian Marine Conservation Society, Felicity Wishart, said the report contained no measurable, deliverable action... READ MORE›

MINING AND OIL THREATENS ONE IN THREE NATURAL WORLD HERITAGE SITES REPORT

Of natural world heritage sites in Africa, more than six in ten are threatened with development... READ MORE›

WHY RUSSIA IS IN SYRIA

Russian President Vladimir Putin right and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad shake hands in Moscow's Kremlin on Dec... READ MORE›

SACRED MEN-ONLY ISLAND SET TO BE GRANTED UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE STATUS

A UNESCO advisory body has recommended adding to the World Heritage list the island of Okinoshima, an ancient religious site in Fukuoka Prefecture where wo... READ MORE›

'WE CAN DO IT!' HUNDREDS DRESS UP AS WWII ICON ROSIE THE RIVETER

They'd just tentatively broken the Guinness World Record for most Rosies in one place since WWII... READ MORE›

JAPAN'S OKINOSHIMA ISLAND GAINS UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE STATUS

Japan's Okinoshima island, an ancient religious site where women are banned, has been declared a World Heritage site by the UN's cultural body Unesco... READ MORE›

TUNNEL TO BE BUILT PAST STONEHENGE

Related Stories A tunnel is to be dug to take a congested main road past Stonehenge, the government has announced... READ MORE›

SYRIAN GIRLS 'SOLD' INTO FORCED MARRIAGES

Many of the young girls are sourced from refugee camps in Jordan that house more than 120 000 Syrian refugees... READ MORE›