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White House cites Unesco’s focus on ‘divisive social and cultural causes’ in latest withdrawal from global bodies

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

Hundreds of Ukrainian cultural sites, from churches to museums, stand damaged by war. These photographs show the devastating toll on Ukraine's cultural heritage.

From its fabled châteaux and flower-filled villages to the fêted river at its heart, the magic of the Loire Valley never fades.

From landscapes and street to architecture, portraits and beyond – these international photography competitions are calling for your images

On Friday, the Murujuga Cultural Landscape in northwest Western Australia was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. We were in Paris to see Murujuga become Australia’s 21st world heritage property, but only our second property listed exclusively for its Indigenous cultural values.

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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,…