UNESCO World Heritage recognition has been given to seven new areas as World Heritage, following IUCN advice. Africa shone ...

Three locations used by Cambodia’s brutal Khmer Rouge regime as torture and execution sites 50 years ago have been added by ...

Tiwai island, located in the Moa River, measures just 12 square kilometres and has 11 species of primates -- including the ...

The World Heritage Committee of UNESCO on Sunday approved the expansion of the world natural heritage site of Phong Nha - Ke ...

A total of 26 new sites were added to the UNESCO World Heritage list this year, 21 of which are of cultural importance to ...

The World Heritage listing raises timely questions, such as whether we might see nominations for sites from Australia’s own ...

The Faya Palaeolandscape has been added to the prestigious UNESCO World Heritage Site list. It has one of the world's oldest ...

India’s Maratha Military Landscapes, featuring 12 historic forts, have been inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in ...

Mount Mulanje in Malawi, Diy-Gid-Biy cultural landscape in Cameroon and Bijagos Archipelago in Guinea-Bissau take their place ...

Neuschwanstein Castle and three other royal residences built by King Ludwig II of Bavaria have been designated as UNESCO ...

The Xixia Imperial Tombs in Northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region Photo: Courtesy of the National Cultural Heritage ...

From Yellowstone to the Garden of Eden, almost 75% of the world's heritage sites at risk of drought or flooding, U.N. warns.