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This week's Royal Blue column sees Chris Beesley reflect on a headline-grabbing fortnight off the pitch for Everton during the international break

When a pest epidemic destroyed most vineyards across Europe in the late 1800s, Australia's untouched syrah, or shiraz, vines became the oldest remaining vine rootstock. Now something new threatens them again.

In many parts of the world, men dominate the higher education sector. A 2022 UNESCO report found that, globally, fewer than two out of five senior academics are women. In an earlier report it showed that less than 30% of the world’s researchers are women.

Yemeni intellectuals and activists urged interventions to stop the Houthi militia's plan to demolish 500 archaeological buildings in the Old City of Sanaa, included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. They warned that the planned demolition includes four crucial markets intending to establish a sectarian shrine in the city. Yemeni…

Opening the first major UN meeting on water resources in nearly half a century, Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres told nearly 6.500 participants, including a hundred ministers and a dozen heads of state and government, that humanity has "broken the water cycle, destroyed ecosystems and contaminated groundwater".

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The Galloway and Southern Ayrshire UNESCO Biosphere has submitted a periodic review, with a decision due in the summer

Some 300 million people celebrate Nowruz, which has been observed for more than 3,000 years in different regions.

IN a straw poll of friends everyone knew Scotland has Unesco sites, but no one had heard of the Unesco Trail, launched recently in a world first.…

Rideau Canal Skateway, the 7.8 kilometre ice path winding through the Canadian capital city of Ottawa, is a National Historic Site of Canada and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The Covid-19 pandemic will long be remembered for the lockdowns it imposed and the millions of lives it stole, particularly among the elderly. A recent Unesco report shows that it has also took a subtle yet large toll on our world heritage properties.