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(Right to Left): Kishore Rao, Director of UNESCO’s Heritage Division and interim Assistant UNESCO Director-General for Culture, Irina Bokova Director-General of UNESCO , and Mahmood Al-Mulla Khalaf, permanent delegate, Delegation of Iraq to UNESCO.

This year’s Nelson Mandela Day, which will be celebrated on Friday, is the first time the day will be observed since the death of the South African leader last December at the age of 95.

What if there were a use for everything we throw away? If so, could we eliminate the idea of trash altogether? That is the question that drives Tom Szaky, CEO of TerraCycle, an award-winning international company that takes incredible amounts of anything and everything that is landfill bound – from millions of used potato chip bags to tens of millions of cigarette butts – and recycles, upcycles, or reuses all of it. On Friday, August 8 at 10 pm ET/PT, Pivot will premiere “Human Resources,” a new kind of docu-comedy that pulls the curtain back on life at TerraCycle, one of the fastest growing green businesses in the world and whose mission is to “eliminate the idea of waste®.” Produced by Left/Right, the half-hour original series will debut as a lead-in to the second season premiere of the critically acclaimed series “Please Like

Honorary and Goodwill Ambassadors of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, whilst gathered in Paris on 30 June and 1 July 2014 on the occasion of their annual meeting, have launched an appeal to protect culture considered as a driver of development and as a source of dialogue.

Ritual structure with staircase (Beikthano) - Pyu Ancient Cities (Myanmar).

Old Beijing City Section of Tonghui Canal - The Grand Canal (China)

Sugarloaf Mountain is one of the iconic attractions in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Offering unparalleled views of the city, thousands of World Cup fans are ascending to the top each day, either to watch the games or just enjoy the sights.

Colombia beat Greece 3-0 during a Group C World Cup soccer match at the Mineirao Stadium in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Saturday.