In an urgent session on Wednesday, UNESCO named two sites from Lebanon and Yemen to its List of World Heritage in Danger, calling for their immediate preservation.
Kylian Mbappe, Neymar and Lionel Messi are among those who have taken to social media to pay tributes to Pele, the ex-Brazilian football legend, who passed away at 82.
Rai, an Algerian musical genre newly registered by the UN agency as part of the world's 'intangible cultural heritage', has accompanied the country's social changes for a century