The biennial list is intended to raise awareness and funds to help preserve the sites it spotlights. Africa's Swahili Coast, Maine's lighthouses and Buddhist grottoes in China are also in peril.

Sand quarries, with their sunlit slopes and bare soils, have emerged as unlikely sanctuaries for rare pollinators.

Joe Biden is set Tuesday to designate two new US national monuments -- sprawling parks -- in California as he looks to secure ...

US President Joe Biden on Tuesday designated two large areas of California as protected national monuments, after the initial ...

Giuseppe Terragni, the modernist architect, served Mussolini and fascism, but to many, the appeal of his buildings has ...

At the Château de Vincennes, just outside Paris and within easy reach of the metro, heritage enthusiasts can take advantage ...

The World Monuments Fund's watch list for 2025 includes Ukraine's Teacher's House and Gaza's Great Omari Mosque.

Parisian tip: boating in the Bois de Vincennes or the Bois de Boulogne Looking for an original way out? Why not go boating in ...

French Football Federation President Philippe Diallo has remained tight-lipped on the prospect of Zinedine Zidane becoming the new manager of the France national team. Zidane is considered a favourite ...

On 19 April 2019, the World’s most highlighted news was that Notre-Dame de Paris (NDP), the Cathedral was on fire. ..

A search for a rumored Roman estate in Germany led archaeologists to something much larger: the ruins of an ancient Roman ...

GENEVA (Switzerland) - World Economic Forum launches its annual Global Risks report (0900 GMT) LISBON (Portugal) - Firefighters strike (1200 GMT) PICTURE. UNITED NATIONS (United States) - UN Secretary ...