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Higgins makes comments at ceremony unveiling stamp to mark Dublin being a UNESCO city of literature Irish President Michael D. Higgins warned of the real danger of not supporting creativity while he was on hand at the unveiling of a special stamp ...

A new 60c Irish stamp was commissioned to commemorate UNESCO naming Dublin as a permanent city of literature in 2010. On the stamp is an entire 224 word short story meant to capture the essence of Dublin, penned by Irish teenager Eoin Moore, who was ...

THE countdown has begun as the attention of the book-loving world turns to Nigeria's oily Garden City, Port Harcourt, which will host stimulating activities around the book when it hoists aloft the World Book Capital flag in 2014. The countdown ...

Historic sites in North Korea's border city of Kaesong are almost certain to be added to the world heritage list of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), according to the U.N. body's Web site Monday. The ...

For years, Hussam Ali Kaj ran a Web design studio in his native city of Aleppo. When the textile and pharmaceutical companies that made up his customer base started leaving Syria to escape the ongoing civil war, he got a call from a friend ...

Ancient City of Aleppo, Syria. Photo: UNESCO/Ron Van Oers 25 April 2013 With reports that the minaret of one of Syria's most famous mosques was reduced to rubble in Aleppo today, the head of the United Nations cultural organization expressed her ...

The steel-hulled vessel hit an atoll on April 8 at the Tubbataha National Marine Park, a UNESCO-designated World Heritage Site on Palawan island. Coast guard spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Armand Balilo said Monday that some 400 boxes, each containing 25 to 30 ...

By Bhavan Jaipragas, AFPSINGAPORE--Singapore, one of the world's most densely populated countries, is campaigning to get its 154-year-old Botanical Gardens declared a UNESCO world heritage site. If selected by the U.N. cultural body, the lush and ...

Gland: As the UNFCCC working group tasked to discuss the scope, structure and design of the new 2015 global climate agreement convenes in Bonn this week, WWF urges delegates to recognize and gain inspiration from the key role cities are playing in ...