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The head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) today voiced deep regret after Thailand announced it would denounce the global convention aimed at preserving humankind's most outstanding shared cultural and natural heritage.

The historic section of the capital of Barbados today became the Caribbean country's first entry on the United Nations-managed World Heritage List after a committee of experts approved its inscription and that of two other sites.

Lake districts in China and Kenya, a coastline in Australia, a fishing delta in Senegal and a string of Japanese islands were today added to the World Heritage List, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) reported.

Illegal logging, poaching, and other intrusions have led rainforests in Honduras and Indonesia to be placed on the List of World Heritage in Danger, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) reported today.

Citing “significant improvements in preservation,” the United Nations Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (UNESCO) said today that it has withdrawn India’s Manas Wildlife Sanctuary from its List of World Heritage in Danger.

The head of the United Nations agency that manages the World Heritage List today called for better protection and preservation of the hundreds of sites around the globe that are currently inscribed on the list.

The United Nations cultural agency has designated National Archives of Australia (NAA) as this year's winner of an award that recognizes significant contributions to the preservation and accessibility of documentary heritage.

The head of the United Nations agency tasked with preserving the world’s cultural heritage today endorsed recommendations to inscribe 45 new documents and documentary collections – ranging from Leo Tolstoy’s personal manuscripts to the collections of Jean-Jacques Rousseau to the patent issued to Carl Benz for a gas-fuelled engine in 1886 – into a heritage register.

More than 80 unique documentary items and collections from around the world have been nominated for inscription this year on the Memory of the World Register List run by the United Nations culture agency in an effort to promote and preserve them through digitization.

An Armenian site featuring remnants of buildings from the Bronze Age through Hellenic and early Christian times and a Palestinian village and its surroundings that have seen 4,000 years of cultivation of vines and olives are the winners of a United Nations prize for the preservation of cultural landscapes.