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UNESCO recommends putting Venice on heritage danger list
AFP, Published on 01/08/2023
» PARIS - The UN's cultural agency UNESCO on Monday recommended that Venice be added to its list of world heritage in danger, saying the Italian authorities needed to step up efforts to secure the historic city and its surrounding lagoon.
In Egypt's Red Sea, corals fade as oceans warm
AFP, Published on 08/10/2021
» SHARM EL SHEIKH, Egypt: Standing on a boat bobbing gently in the Red Sea, Egyptian diving instructor Mohamed Abdelaziz looks on as tourists snorkel amid the brilliantly coloured corals, a natural wonder now under threat from climate change.
All aboard! Next stop space...
AFP, Published on 10/04/2021
» WASHINGTON - Several hundred people have already booked their tickets and begun training for a spectacular voyage: a few minutes, or perhaps days, in the weightlessness of space.
Thousands displaced for China's huge new telescope
AFP, Published on 30/11/2016
» PINGTANG, China - Humanity’s best bet at detecting aliens is a giant silver Chinese dish the size of 30 football fields -- one that simultaneously showcases Beijing's abilities to deploy cutting-edge technologies and ignore objectors' rights as it seeks global prominence.
Japan latest battleground in Airbnb home-sharing war
AFP, Published on 27/07/2016
» TOKYO - Sarah Takeda thought she had a good little business renting a traditional tatami-mat room in her house on Airbnb.
Sweden: Art on the internet breaks copyright law
AFP, Published on 05/04/2016
» STOCKHOLM - Sweden's highest court on Monday found Wikimedia Sweden guilty of violating copyright laws by providing free access to its database of artwork photographs without the artists' consent.
Worries over illegal organ market
AFP, Published on 27/10/2014
» PHNOM PENH - The seven-inch scar runs diagonally across the left flank of his skinny torso, a glaring reminder of an operation he hoped would save his family from debt but instead plunged him into shame.
Myanmar welcomes ancient cities entry on World Heritage list
AFP, Published on 24/06/2014
» Myanmar on Monday welcomed the designation of its ancient Pyu kingdom cities as a UNESCO world heritage site, marking its first entry onto the UN cultural agency's prized list.
French cave home to earliest drawings wins World Heritage status
AFP, Published on 23/06/2014
» UN cultural agency UNESCO on Sunday granted its prized World Heritage status to a prehistoric cave in southern France containing the earliest known figurative drawings.
Tanzania: on the front line of the war against poaching
AFP, Published on 31/05/2014
» Apollo Kwilabya has loved the outdoors ever since he was a young boy, hunting small animals with his father in Tanzania's southern highlands.