Mexico asks UNESCO to add country's rich cuisine to world heritage list Mexico already has many of its monuments on UNESCO's list of ...
Environmentalists on Tuesday condemned Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin for allowing a controversial paper plant on Siberia's pristine Lake Baikal to reopen, calling ...
Classrooms at the Adivasi Academy in western India echo to the speech patterns of languages that may soon become no more than a meaningless jumble of noises. Kukna, Panchmahali and Rathvi are just three of dozens of tribal Indian tongues taught at ...
PARIS (Reuters) - France handed back four fragments of an ancient tomb mural to Egyptian antiquities authorities on Friday and President Nicolas Sarkozy will return the fifth piece next week, the French culture ministry said. Sarkozy will deliver the fifth fragment to ...
AMESBURY, UNITED KINGDOM - NOVEMBER 30: The moon rises over Stonehenge on November 30, 2009 near Amesbury, England. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and internet search engine Google have teamed up to provide internet users with the ability to ...
A group of Brazilian ranchers is bulldozing a UNESCO reserve inhabited by an indigenous Indian tribe with no prior contact with the outside world, an native rights group said Monday. Survival International said the UNESCO bioreserve in Paraguay's Chaco region is home ...
PARIS/LONDON (Reuters) - Even 150 years after it first appeared in print, Charles Darwin's "On The Origin of Species" still fuels clashes between scientists convinced of its truth and critics who reject its view of life without a creator. This "Darwin Year" ...
Columns of smoke and the acrid smell of burning peat now greet visitors to one of the largest wetland zones in Europe, where smouldering fires in the subsoil are causing alarm among environmentalists. The 2,000-hectare (5,000-acre) Tablas de Daimiel National Park began ...
Ronan Keating performing live at the annual UNESCO charity gala at Maritim Hotel. Duesseldorf, Germany - 14.11.20 Copyright 2009 WENN
SARAJEVO (Reuters Life!) - Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro agreed on Monday to nominate medieval tombstones scattered across the region and known as 'Stecci' as their shared cultural heritage to the UN World Heritage List. Government ministers from the countries that were ...
In Egypt, a synagogue renovation elicits complicated feelings about preserving Jewish history The warren of slum alleys is called the Jews' Quarter, but no Jews live there. The ancient synagogue still stands, but its roof is gone. The government is renovating it, ...
TIWANAKU, Bolivia (Reuters) - Eager to attract more tourists, the town of Tiwanaku in the Bolivian Andes has spruced-up the ancient Akapana pyramid with adobe instead of stone, in what some experts are calling a renovation fiasco. Now, the Akapana pyramid risks ...
