The twelfth-century Umayyad Mosque in Aleppo’s walled Old City has been heavily damaged by fighting and fire this week. Rebel forces tried to push out government troops that have been camping in the mosque for months. The Old City is one of six UNESCO World Heritage sites in Syria; five of them have been damaged and […]

In Vietnam, local people reportedly attacked police sent to protect officials from the Museum of Quang Ngai, who were surveying a 500-year-old shipwreck along the coast. The 60 fishermen claimed that the ship and its artifacts belonged to them as they gathered on the beach and swam to the wreck site. “At first they pretended to […]