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Young V&A, Museum of the Year Finalist, 2024. Image courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London

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Chain Home low radar station in Craster, Northumberland.

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A cup adorned with the royal family of Savoy's coat of arms is displayed in a showcase ahead of sales at Geneve Encheres auction house

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File -Tourists look on by the statue of the Neptune by Italian 16th century artist Bartolomeo Ammannati in Florence's Piazza della Signoria square, 2005

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York Minster cathedral is set to install solar panels on its roof.

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UNESCO experts in Morocco have decided that the baguette deserves United Nations recognition.

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Watch: the baguette gets UN world heritage status

The humble baguette - the crunchy ambassador for French baking around the world - has been added to the UN’s list of intangible cultural heritage.

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Paul Doy lights a gas-powered streetlamp outside London's Westminster Abbey.

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"007 ELEMENTS": James Bond installation, 3,040 metres above sea level on the summit of Gaislachkogl, Austria

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European Film Academy highlights 35 legendary film locations

From the Trevi Fountain in Rome to the Notting Hill Bookshop in London, via the Institut Lumière in Lyon and Babelsberg Studio in Potsdam, these are the treasures of European film culture.

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Sacheen Littlefeather is labelled a "fraud" by her sisters

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The "Zaporizhzhian Sich" a museum-island in the Dnipro river of around 30 square kilometres that was a base for Ukrainian Cossacks from the 16th century

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Moscow 'guilty of destroying heritage', Ukrainian minister says

Ukraine's culture minister Oleksandr Tkachenko says since Moscow's invasion began in February more than 500 cultural heritage sites have been destroyed or damaged.

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Mohamed Al-Khater inspects a flower growing in his aromatic garden in Torba Farm, Qatar.

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“Torba preserves traditional native plants of the Gulf region. We have heritage seeds and plants, and we grow many other plants from around the world.”

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The interior of a "damous", a dwelling carved into Libya's arid Nafusa mountains, in Gharyan town.

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'Mariupol' is written in at the entrance of the Strehler Theater, as a symbolic action in the aftermath of the bombing that destroyed the Mariupol theatre

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UNESCO-protected Chernivtsi Universtiy in Chernivtsi, a city of 250,000 in southwestern Ukraine

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Europa Nostra and Global Heritage Fund have launched a joint crowdfunding campaign to support the defenders of Ukraine’s endangered heritage.

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The President of Mexico Andrés Manuel López Obrador says French auction houses had gone beyond the pale with brazen sales of pre-Hispanic artefacts.

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Hundreds attend the annual Virgin Mary service at the Sumela Monastery looking over the Black Sea

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