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UNESCO was founded after World War Two to promote peace through international cooperation in education, science, and culture

The United States says it will again pull out of the U.N.’s educational, scientific and cultural agency UNESCO, because of what Washington sees as its anti-Israel bias, only two years after rejoining

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Bavarian palaces and Cambodian memorial sites were considered ‘of outstanding universal value’

‘Ludwig II called in not architects, but theatrical set designers who shared his obsession with Wagnerian opera’

Two men, Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers, have been jailed for four years and three months each for felling Britain's iconic Sycamore Gap tree. The much-loved sycamore, estimated to be almost 200 years old, stood beside Hadrian's Wall and featured in the film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. Graham, 39,…

A series of atrocity sites of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia have been formally entered onto the World Heritage list, as part of the 47th session of the World Heritage Committee.

Activist Tommy Garnett's decades of work paid off when Sierra Leone's Tiwai island -- a lush forest home to one of the world's highest concentrations of primates -- landed a spot Sunday on the UN cultural agency's World Heritage list.

The Neuschwanstein castle in Germany's Bavaria, perhaps best known for inspiring Walt Disney's fairytale castles, has been named a World Heritage site, the UN cultural agency announced on Saturday.