AP PHOTOS: Traditions of the Azores island chain are kept alive in southern Brazil at an annual festival of dancing and old crafts, such as making lace and pottery
Historic sites from Peru's Inca past are being crowded out _ and sometimes destroyed _ as new roads, schools and residential neighborhoods are built to meet the population's growing demands
The boyhood home of country music icon Johnny Cash is being considered as a nominee for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places
Jamaica's government says it will protect nearly 75,000 hectares (185,000 acres) in a northwest region dotted by mines that features forests, rivers and cultural sites
The Army is a new training brigade, military leaders like Col. Scott Jackson aren't looking only at drilling techniques and discipline, but cultural biases and personality issues to root out soldiers unfit for their unique mission
The chief U.S. envoy at UNESCO says anti-Israel bias and opaque bureaucracy are hobbling the U.N. cultural agency and is urging deep reforms
Brazil's Environment Ministry says arson may be the cause of a wildfire that over the past two weeks has destroyed more than a quarter of a national park in the central state of Goias
Europe should preserve cultural heritage, defend borders against migrants: EU's Tusk
Gretchen Carlson, whose harassment accusations led to former Fox News CEO's ouster, says the nation is in the midst of a profound cultural shift on the issue
UNESCO's executive board has chosen former French Culture Minister Audrey Azoulay to be the U.N. cultural agency's next leader in an unusually heated race overshadowed by Mideast tensions