Unesco names world heritage sites
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The Sydney Opera House and India's Red Fort are among new sites added to the UN's heritage list.
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A plan to build eight big hotel complexes on a sleepy outcrop of volcanic islands north of Sicily could lose the archipelago its status as a United Nations World Heritage site.
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The world has Seven New Wonders, to add to the numerous international lists of top tourist must-sees.
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Travel: Tower Hamlets has made a surprise appearance on a list of the world's 100 most endangered places.
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Some of the world's most treasured destinations are in peril. Many are being trashed by mass tourism, with an assist from indifferent government policies and greedy developers. Among them:  _Easter Island.
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LISBON -- The Great Wall of China, Rome's Colosseum, and India's Taj Mahal were among seven architectural marvels named the new wonders of the world yesterday.
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A generation ago, a battle was successfully waged on this rugged island to preserve what was left of its primeval forests, home to giant trees millennia old. Now tourism spawned by this natural heritage is threatening its survival.
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The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Wednesday announced the discovery of 11 new animal and plant species in a remote area of central Vietnam.
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Travel: From virgin rainforest to Andean peaks, Peru has an incredible natural heritage
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For centuries, Europe's monuments have withstood earthquakes, fire and plundering. Now cultural treasures from the Colosseum to Westminster Abbey could face new threats from climate change, a study says.
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World tourism broke all records in 2006 despite fears over terrorism, bird flu and rising oil prices, the United Nations tourism watchdog reported Monday. A total of 842 million international tourist arrivals were recorded last year, an increase of 4.5 percent, the Madrid-based World Tourism Organization said, citing preliminary data.
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The UN puts Ecuador's Galapagos Islands on its list of World Heritage sites in danger, citing increased tourism.
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The Antarctic base occupied by British explorer Robert Falcon Scott on his ill-fated expedition to the South Pole on foot early last century has been included on a list of the world's 100 most endangered sites.
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A list of 15,000 species threatened with extinction - many of them by human activity - is published.
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The UN's cultural body meets in New Zealand to decide which sites should be given World Heritage status.
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The discovery of remains of a tiny human closely related to man on the remote Indonesian island of Flores and tales of Hobbit-like creatures who still roam its jungles have triggered an influx of visitors in search of a fabled lost world.
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Campaigners petition the UN to take urgent action to protect iconic natural sites from climate change.