Sources: BBC
UNESCO recommends the inclusion of Venice, Italy, a World Heritage Site, on its List of World Heritage in Danger due to overtourism and flooding. 2023-07-31
UNESCO Director General Audrey Azoulay is expected to be reelected as head of the agency after no other candidates were nominated. 2021-03-17
A bushfire on Fraser Island, a UNESCO World Heritage Site off the coast of Queensland, has burned across half the island and may irreversibly damage its unique ecosystem. Extinguishment has been ruled unlikely. 2020-12-1
The Carnival of Aalst in Belgium goes ahead despite UNESCO withdrawing its recognition of the event as a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity because of Jewish caricatures. 2020-02-23
The Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire, United Kingdom, the ancient ruins of Babylon in Babil Governorate, Iraq, among other sites are designated UNESCO World Heritage Sites. 2019-07-7
Six people are killed and 23 others injured in three bomb explosions during Nowruz celebration in Kabul, Afghanistan. 2019-03-21
Reggae music is added to the UNESCO Representative list of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. 2018-11-29
The United States Trump administration and the government of Israel announce their plans to withdraw as members of UNESCO. 2017-10-12
More than 50,000 people practice yoga in Lucknow, India, to celebrate International Yoga Day. 2017-06-21
International cultural experts attack the Italian government's policy of tolerating oversized advertisements on historic Venetian sights as being "probably illegal". They say it violates the city's UNESCO ranking as a World Heritage Site. 2010-10-3