The lives and rich traditions of descendants of West African slaves who live in southern coastal regions of the eastern United States are being showcased at a museum in Washington, DC. The exhibit at the Smithsonian's Anacostia aims to educate people about the Gullah people while promoting preservation of their culture and traditions.

Human rights activists at a congressional hearing Friday implored the Obama administration to publicly and forcefully denounce Bahrain's violent and abusive crackdown against anti-government protesters.

In the latest sign of the hardline movement's rapprochement with at least some areas of the modern world, the Taliban have embraced microblogging. Their Twitter feed, @alemarahweb, pumps out several messages a day, keeping followers up to date with often highly exaggerated reports of strikes.

China plans a theme park to celebrate Hello Kitty, the cutesy cat with no mouth but a cult-like following…Hello Kitty’s popularity in China can be seen as a counterpoint to Sino-Japanese political tensions by demonstrating the population’s embrace of Japanese style...

A singer, instrumentalist and composer, Gilberto Gil is Brazil’s ambassador of culture and he’s played this role both as a musician and as an activist… He’s in South Africa this week for a musical project that explores the cultures of the southern people, called Connecting South.

The English version of an illustrated book about Taiwanese culture by prominent French author and illustrator Nicole Lambert was unveiled May 10. “Taiwan, Island of Treasures” is a pictorial work based on Lambert’s observations during a one-month visit in Taiwan at the invitation of the Egret Culture and Education Foundation...

Moments after he said that his country had instructed Pakistan to target terror havens, US ambassador Timothy Roemer was given basic lessons in the American sport of ultimate (earlier known as Frisbee) by slum children on his visit to Gandhi Ashram on Tuesday.

South Korea and North Korea have been invited to field a joint table tennis team at an upcoming international event designed to promote peace through sports, officials said. [The] ...Peace and Sport Table Tennis Tournament will invite 10 countries to "encourage dialogue and good relations" between states.