If you think about World Heritage Sites, you probably think of places associated with ancient art and culture, and historical buildings. But let's look at a few of the more unusual sites on the List.
Hot and cold, rich and poor, wet and dry, island and land-locked, the Commonwealth countries look like a list of opposites. Just what do they all have in common?
It seems that the impulse to make inanimate figures move and talk is a very natural one, and that's exactly what puppets are all about. And that's probably why they've existed for thousands of years.
Wherever there is conflict in the world and enemies have agreed to let a neutral force come in to maintain the peace, it is usually the familiar blue helmets of the United Nations that we see on the scene.
What is a land-locked country? It is a country with no coastline at all. If you are a Hungarian or a Paraguayan, you have to pass through somebody else’s country if you want to go to the beach.
Twenty-four hour news, e-commerce, international call-centres, mobile phones, Global Positioning Systems … all these are making the world smaller and faster.
There are perhaps 370 million indigenous peoples in 70 countries around the world. They live on 20% of the world’s land, and they contribute 80% of the world’s biological and cultural diversity.
A refugee, defined by the United Nations, is a person who is unable to return to their country because of a well-founded fear of persecution based on their race, caste, religion, nationality, or political opinion.
Development is happening everywhere around the world and it has started to be called "globalisation". There is a serious argument that this process is unfair and that it is causing a lot of poverty...
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