UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee will consider extending protection to several cultural and natural sites threatened by conflict, development and environmental damage when it meets in Busan, South Korea, from July 19 to 29.

Ahead of a major United Nations summit on global heritage, preservationists from around the world convened in the southeastern port city of Busan T...

The United Nations looks set to list a Biblical site, Lebanese castles, an antelope migration path and the world's deepest lake as world treasures under threat, including from war…