The United Nations culture and heritage organization Unesco said it was mobilizing experts to survey the damage to historical sites from the earthquakes and aftershocks that hit Turkey and Syria this ...

Switzerland hopes to have yodelling recognised by the United Nations this month to help protect the ancestral sing-song tradition of the Alpine nation's herders and shepherds. But unlike in 2020, when ...

Chef Lizzeth Martinez, owner of Naco Grayson, will represent the Alamo City as a UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy chef ambassador for the next two years. She talks about what that means, and shares ...

Palestinian women at a school in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on Friday. (Said Khatib/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images) Unesco said that more than 200 schools in the Gaza Strip have been damaged ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Trump administration announced Tuesday that it will once again withdraw from the U.N. cultural agency UNESCO, an expected move that has the U.S. further retreating from ...

In light of the multiple challenges currently being faced by the African continent, including the impact of climate change, the various ongoing regional armed conflicts and the global COVID-19 ...

A decades-long effort to earn a prestigious worldwide recognition for historic Moravian sites in Bethlehem has paid off. The UNESCO World Heritage Committee voted to inscribe the sites while most of ...

Tucson, Arizona, is the first city in the United States to earn the UNESCO City of Gastronomy title. Eric Martin, Figarophoto ...

PARIS (AP) — UNESCO announced Monday that the United States plans to rejoin the U.N. cultural and scientific agency — and pay more than $600 million in back dues — after a decade-long dispute sparked ...