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Naples' pizza twirling joins UNESCO's list of "intangible heritage", securing the coveted status alongside a host of cultural treasures including a Saudi artform traditionally practiced only by women. IMAGES of people celebrating in Naples
Japan won UNESCO World Cultural Heritage status for 23 Meiji Industrial Revolution sites on Sunday.The sites, including Hashima Island, also known as Battleship Island, a coal mine island off Nagasaki Port, illustrate Japan’s rapid industrialisation.
Images of destroyed buildings in the medina of Marrakesh, a UNESCO World Heritage site, a day after a powerful earthquake ripped through Morocco's tourist hub of Marrakesh. The 6.8-magnitude quake killed more than 2,000 people, as rescue teams raced to find survivors trapped in the rubble of flattened villages. IMAGES
The FIFA World Cup trophy makes its way to the UNESCO heritage site of At-Turaif district, in Diriyah, in the Saudi capital Riyadh, as part of the FIFA World Cup Trophy Tour. IMAGES
28 heads of state or government attending Unesco's 75th anniversary celebration in Paris walk onto an outdoor stage for a family photo. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron visits the exhibition "Restitution of 26 works of the royal treasures of Abomey", at the Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac Museum. It will be the last time the colonial-era treasures taken from Benin will be shown in France before being handed back in a landmark gesture. IMAGES
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