UNESCO in call to halt NI golf resort development

Chances have increased that Mount Fuji will become a World Heritage site in June following an April 30 recommendation by a UNESCO panel. The International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) noted that the volcano is a national symbol of Japan ...

The 11th-century minaret of a famed mosque that towered over the narrow stone alleyways of Aleppo's old quarter collapsed on Wednesday as rebels and government troops fought pitched battles in the streets around it, depriving the ancient Syrian city of one of ...

LANZHOU - China is investing millions of dollars in a flood control project to prevent Mogao Grottoes, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Northwest China's Gansu province, from seasonal flooding, the caves' administration said on Tuesday. Designed to ...

DUNHUANG, Gansu, May 17 (Xinhua) -- The administration of the Mogao Grottoes, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in northwest China's Gansu Province, is to introduce new measures to control visitor flows and prevent damage to the caves' Buddhist frescoes.

'Very clearly this is an issue of concern to us,' UNESCO unit chief says Gros Morne National Park's status as a world heritage site may be in jeopardy due to plans for controversial oil exploration on Newfoundland's west coast, CBC News has learned.

A cave in the small district of Tokatlı in the UNESCO World Heritage site Safranbolu district will be made into a cafe to attract tourists. Karabük Mayor İzzettin Küçük said the cave was 11 meters long and 80 meters high. It will also have an ...

The 154-year-old Singapore Botanic Garden on Friday announced its plans to build a heritage museum and a separate gallery for green exhibits, aiming at better support for the garden in bidding for United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural ...

The Great Barrier Reef should be placed on a list of World Heritage sites in danger if Australia doesn't limit the building of new coal export terminals and improve water quality, the United Nations said. New port developments in Queensland state ...

Quedlinburg is a UNESCO World Heritage site. [Sheldon Kirshner photo] QUEDLINBURG, Germany ­— There is no place quite like it in Germany. Quedlinburg, a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1994, has 1,300 half-timbered buildings, more than any other ...