The World Heritage Committee on Saturday inscribed five cultural sites, including one transnational property, in Saudi Arabia, Austria, Belgium, Czechia, France, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on UNESCO’s World Heritage List during its 44th session held online and chaired from Fuzhou (China).

Five sites inscribed on UNESCO’s world heritage list

Heritage bodies said on Friday that UNESCO would throw a “harsher spotlight” on the UK’s other 31 listed sites after Liverpool became only the third place in nearly 50 years to be stripped of its world heritage status.

Stonehenge could lose world heritage status, here is why

The UNESCO World Heritage Committee has urged the United States to halt the construction of the border wall. Also, the committee called on the US to work with Mexico to assess damage from the wall to a World Heritage site in Mexico, and adjacent protected lands in the US.

UNESCO calls on US to end construction of Trump’s border wall

Just a few weeks after Italy banned large cruise ships from entering the city centre, Venice narrowly avoided being named a world heritage site under threat on Thursday.

Venice dodges UNESCO endangered listing after big ship ban

Great Barrier Reef has escaped the prospect of being listed as endangered world heritage site by UNESCO. However, concerns remains for damage to ecosystem's corals due to climate change and other factors.

Great Barrier Reef won't be listed as endangered heritage site for now

The Great Barrier Reef near Australia may be downgraded as 'endangered' in the World Heritage listing this week. This has again focused everyone's attention on the list people often know a bit less about.

What is World Heritage List and why is Great Barrier Reef facing a downgrade?

Liverpool has been removed from the UNESCO’s world heritage list as experts think there has been overdevelopment in the British city in the last few years. "It means that the site of Liverpool Maritime Mercantile City is deleted from the World Heritage List," Tian Xuejun, chairman of UNESCO's World Heritage Committee, said.

Liverpool removed from UNESCO's heritage list due to 'overdevelopment'

Australia will take a group of ambassadors snorkelling on the Great Barrier Reef Thursday in a last-minute lobbying effort to keep the World Heritage site off UNESCO's endangered list.

Australia to take ambassadors snorkelling to save Great Barrier Reef status

The Berber granaries, considered as one of the oldest banking systems, were used by Amazigh communities inhabiting the mountainous south of Morocco to store all kinds of valuable belongings from documents, jewelry and harvest. Morocco is now planning to include them in UNESCO's world heritage sites list.

Discover Morocco's ancient granaries, "the first indication of the emergence of banks"

A UNESCO panel has recommended that the Great Barrier Reef be stripped of its World Heritage Site tag. Australia is blaming the China-led panel for settling a political score at UNESCO. Palki Sharma tells you more.

Gravitas: Great Barrier Reef downgraded, Australia blames China

Australia will strongly oppose a UNESCO plan to list the Great Barrier Reef as "in danger" over its deterioration caused by climate change, the government said on Tuesday.

Australia to challenge UNESCO downgrade of Great Barrier Reef over bleaching damage caused by climate change

Australia said it will strongly oppose a China-chaired UNESCO plan to list the Great Barrier Reef as a heritage site “in danger” over deterioration caused by climate change.

Australia hits back at China-chaired UNESCO over Barrier Reef's heritage status

A new report launched by UNESCO highlights the need for policy measures to reach gender parity in the cultural and creative industries, despite recent progress in promoting gender equality.

UNESCO reports persistent gender bias in cultural, creative industries

Nearly three-quarters of female journalists say they have been victims of harassment online and for 20 per cent this has transferred into offline attacks, according to a UNESCO study published Friday.

Three-quarters of female journalists face online abuse: UNESCO

Pakistan's famous truck art will move from its highways to the skies, as a flying academy is painting a two-seater Cessna aircraft with the colourful technique. With elaborate and flamboyant motifs, Pakistani truck art has inspired gallery exhibitions abroad and prompted stores in Western cities to sell miniatures.

From the highways to the skies: Pakistan's famous truck art goes airborne

Singapore's tradition of communal dining at hawker centres, open air food courts popularised by celebrity chefs and hit films such as 'Crazy Rich Asians', has been recognised by UNESCO for its cultural significance.

Singapore's foodie 'hawker' culture given UNESCO recognition

Fire fighters continue their struggle to put out a massive bushfire that has been raging on over 6 weeks now in Australia. The fires have already destroyed the 40% of the UNESCO world heritage listed Fraser island.

Your Story: Temperature soars, worsens conditions to fight Australian bushfires

Brussels decorated its 18-meter (59 feet) high Christmas tree on Sunday in the middle of the Grand Place, the UNESCO World Heritage main city square.

18-metre-high Christmas tree goes up in Brussels

Nov 16 in history: From commencement of UNESCO to retirement of Sachin Tendulkar

The United Nations and World Bank called for school reopenings despite coronavirus risks in a new report on Wednesday, stressing children in poor countries are severely affected by pandemic due to an absence of the access to digital means to pursue learning.

UN, World Bank call for reopening schools amid Covid-19 pandemic

A huge car geoglyph has been discovered etched at a world UNESCO world heritage site at Nazca valley in Peru. According to archeologists, the geoglyph, which dates back from 200-100BC, depicts an enormous cat lounging across a desert hillside.

Massive cat geoglyph found at UNESCO world heritage site in Nazca, Peru

The Jammu and Kashmir administration has started preparing a dossier on the six Mughal Gardens in the Kashmir Valley in a bid to empanel them in the list of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) mandated world heritage sites.

Jammu and Kashmir's historical Mughal garden to be included into UNESCO world heritage list

60 heritage sites risk collapse after Beirut blast

Houses in Yemen's UNESCO-listed Old City of Sanaa are collapsing under heavy rains, as months of floods and storms assail a country already reeling from war, food shortages and disease.

Houses in Yemen's UNESCO-listed Old City of Sanaa collapse under heavy rains

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