All Stories: Irina Bokova

ISTANBUL: The UN's cultural agency added four new sites in Iran, India, China and Micronesia to its World Heritage list.

PARIS: UN cultural agency UNESCO will gather in Istanbul on Sunday to review candidates to join its prestigious World Heritage List, ranging from 350-million-year old fossils to works by Franco-Swiss architect Le Corbusier.

UNITED NATIONS: The UN Security Council will begin on July 21 the first of many expected rounds of secret "straw poll" voting to choose the next secretary-general to lead the world body.