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Lifestyle

Dutch divers still haul up debris six years after container spill

The US provides about 8 per cent of Unesco’s total budget, down from about 20 per cent at the time Trump first pulled the US out of the agency.
Lifestyle

US to leave UN cultural agency Unesco again

Rusting coins that are damaging the stones at the Giant's Causeway, are pictured at the Unesco World Heritage Site.
Lifestyle

Tourist coins pose giant problem at Northern Ireland’s famous causeway site

The sweet-and-sour-smelling brew has been fermenting for 20 days in what is part of an ancient technique that Unesco is set to list as Intangible Cultural Heritage this week.
Lifestyle

Japanese brewer hopes Unesco listing makes sake as popular as sushi

Mr Amadou Mahtar M'Bow, UNESCO director-general is on a two-day visit to learn about the activities and achievements of Singapore in technical and professional training. Mr B'Bow would also study the relationship between education and employment here. Mr M'Bow who is from Senegal, is accompanied by his wife and a small official party at the invitation of the Singapore Government.
International

Former Unesco head Amadou Mahtar Mbow dead at 103

A boy sits above debris at a UN-run school sheltering displaced people after Israeli bombardment in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip on July 9, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas militant group. The Israeli military said its air force had struck "several terrorists" who were using a Nuseirat school "as cover". A source at the local Al-Awda hospital said it had received several wounded after an attack on a school run by the UN agency UNRWA. (Photo by Eyad BABA / AFP)
International

Unesco warns of global spike in attacks on education

An aerial view of an ongoing archaeological excavation below San Casciano dei Bagni, Italy. A trove of well-preserved bronze statues, mostly dating from the second century BC to the first century AD, were discovered under layers of mud in what had been a sacred pool of thermo-mineral water.
Lifestyle

Archaeologists in high demand in Italy thanks to EU funds

People enjoying a concert at the Singapore Botanic Gardens, a World Heritage Site.
Opinion & Features
THE BROAD VIEW

The role of culture in being a liveable and distinctive city

Stonehenge joined Unesco's World Heritage list in 1986.
International

Tense talks as Unesco mulls heritage sites at risk

Unesco Director-General Audrey Azoulay (C) poses with members of the South Korean K-Pop group Seventeen during a photocall as part of their appointment ceremony as Unesco's goodwill Ambassador for Youth in Paris.
Lifestyle

K-pop stars Seventeen become Unesco ambassadors

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