HISTORICAL FACTS: 24 | History Defined

Why you should swap Lisbon and Porto for this Portuguese city, where a glass of wine costs €2

On a trip to Portugal’s lesser-visited ‘third city’ Matt Dennis finds Baroque architecture, cobbled streets and a budget-friendly food and wine scene

The Independent UK · Jun 13, 2025

Plastic Odyssey and Unesco sign deal to restore marine World Heritage sites

At the United Nations Ocean Conference in Nice, Unesco and the Plastic Odyssey expedition have announced a partnership aimed at restoring the world’s most endangered marine World Heritage sites, increasingly under threat from plastic pollution.

Radio France Internationale · Jun 11, 2025

UNESCO World Heritage site St Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv damaged in Russian overnight attack

Russia's attack against Ukraine overnight on Tuesday damaged the Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv — one of Ukraine’s most cherished and most famous monuments listed among its UNESCO World Heritage sites.

Euronews · Jun 10, 2025

All of the cheese, none of the hassle: Why I took a small-group rail tour through Switzerland

Keen to save time on planning, Vicky Smith tried a guided train trip with small-group adventure company Intrepid.

Euronews · Jun 7, 2025

Cunard announces six new cruise destinations, including Canada, Iceland and Italy

Cunard’s exciting new destinations include lapsed ports, Unesco world heritage sites and northern lights cruises launchig in 2027 and 2028

The Independent UK · Jun 4, 2025

Peru allows miners to seek permits in area removed from Nazca Lines protection

Peru has acknowledged that miners operating in an area once protected around the famed Nazca Lines can now begin the process of legalizing their activities after the government reduced the buffer zone by 42% last week

The Independent UK · Jun 3, 2025

Morning Mail: Gina Rinehart’s $400,000 Liberal fundraiser, official push to recognise rock art, Israel targets Gaza schools

Australia’s richest woman helped the Liberal party raise around $400,000 at an event now embroiled in a workplace relations dispute

The Guardian - AU · Jun 2, 2025

Peru reduces Nazca Lines park by 42%, raising concerns over environmental and heritage risks

Peru’s decision to reduce the boundaries of the Nazca Archaeological Park by 1,000 hectares has sparked concern among conservationists and archaeologists

The Independent UK · Jun 2, 2025

Australia to lobby Unesco over barring of ancient rock site from world heritage list due to Woodside emissions

Site is home to more than a million petroglyphs, some almost 50,000 years old, but reports say it has been damaged by the Karratha gas plant

The Guardian - AU · Jun 2, 2025

Will young people be the saviours of France's endangered Breton language?

Half of France's regional languages are considered 'seriously endangered' according to Unesco, but in the west of the country, where the decline in Breton speakers has accelerated in recent years, a network of schools is fighting the decline.

Radio France Internationale · Jun 1, 2025