For over 850 years, the leaning minaret of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri stood as an iconic landmark in the Iraqi city of Mosul ...

India has sent a proposal to UNESCO for inclusion of the Diwali festival in its list of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) of Humanity, Culture Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat said on Thursday.

The Al-Hadbaa Minaret in Mosul, destroyed by ISIS in 2017, has been rebuilt through a major international initiative led by ...

The UN body has brought several religious and other buildings in the Iraqi city back to life as part of an $115 million ...

We interview the winners of the L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards 2024, exploring their inspiring journeys ...

Giulia Panchoni Righetto, 26, was with her boyfriend and their three friends yesterday afternoon when the São Francisco ...

World Heritage Sites could and should play a more active role in promoting a vision of global peace, heritage experts at ...

Located just a few miles from the Adriatic, Andria has emerged as an important cultural and agricultural city in Puglia.

Additionally, a lot of age-old practices such as heather burning and moorland draining have been halted to return the reserve ...

Unesco, which added Portuguese traditional dressage to its list in December, called the practice a “source of collective ...

Spring Festival is immortalized in poems, such as Wang Anshi's New Year's Day which describes the vibrant scenes of the ...

It has been reported that sub-Saharan Africa could suffer greatly from this move. The U.S. gave the region more than $6.5 billion in humanitarian assistance last year. This week HIV patients in Africa ...