The Latest Breaking News from UNESCO

Long before humans began transforming the landscape in Portugal, nature had already fashioned some incredible sights

Plans for a fossil fuel project in Wadden Sea nature reserve have angered local people and campaigners, as political enthusiasm for renewables wanes

Botswana’s fertile Okavango Delta is one of the last remaining high-biodiversity ecosystems in the world, home to cheetahs, African wild dogs, baobab trees, crocodiles, termites and owls that catch fish. Roughly the size of the state of Connecticut, the freshwater Okavango Delta opens into an enormous alluvial fan that stretches…

The United Nations' cultural agency selected former Egyptian tourism and antiquities minister Khaled El-Enany as its new chief, handing him the keys to revive Unesco's fortunes after the US withdrew from it for a second time.

UNESCO executives voted Monday to make an Egyptian ex-antiquities minister the UN culture body's next leader, as it grapples with accusations of pro-Israel bias that prompted the United States to say it would quit the organisation.

An Egyptian antiquities professor and a Congolese economist are competing to become the new director of UNESCO

The United Nations' cultural agency Unesco this week announced the launch of a virtual museum showcasing hundreds of looted artefacts – a bid to educate the public about the consequences of trafficking cultural property.

These cities are worlds within worlds, where Unesco-listed cathedrals can be found right next door to spectacular museums and restaurants. US Travel Editor Ted Thornhill is your guide...

The UN's scientific and cultural agency, Unesco, faces criticism for being slow, politicised and short of funds. As it prepares to choose a successor to its French director general, Audrey Azoulay, on Monday, Congolese veteran Firmin Édouard Matoko tells RFI that his three decades inside the organisation are an asset…