The U.S. ambassador to Malta has upset the State Department by devoting so much time to writing and speaking about faith-related issues, according to a report from the department’s inspector general released last week.

Blowing in the wind at the moment is the question of cultural diplomacy. Bob Dylan plays a gig in Beijing, then heads with his guitar to another of his nation's traditional enemies, Vietnam.

The Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Program has been around since 1987. This program, the largest component of which places native English speakers in Japan’s junior and senior high schools for year-long tours of duty as Assistant Language Teachers (ALTs), has thousands of alumni from around the world – more than 20,000 from the United States alone.

In a $20m (£12m) remake of the classic American children's programme, the setting for the show has moved from the streets of New York to a lively village in Pakistan with a roadside tea and snacks stall, known as a dhaba...

Synthetic ivy and orange blossoms climb walls adorned with paintings of stirring Korean landscapes, silk flowers fill the vases and the karaoke machine is pumping out the hits as the dinner crowd fills Pyongyang, an incongruous outpost of North Korean culture and cuisine in the capital's teeming streets.

A 57-member China Disabled Arts group – UNESCO Artists for Peace, arrive in Ghana on 18th April, 2011 for a 3-day official visit to the country. The visit to the country is in furtherance of the bilateral cultural agreement signed between the Republic of China and Ghana in the field of Cultural exchange, promotion and development.

Four Israeli master chefs from different ethnic and religious backgrounds cook up a variety of ways to make beautiful cuisine together. Taste of Peace (Taam Salaam in Arabic and Taam Shalom in Hebrew) was founded in 2009 by a multiethnic corps of chefs...Their first event was a "coexistence cooking competition" where 10 Jewish and 10 Arab chefs paired off to cook dishes together without knowing the recipe.