Being a diplomat requires you to be proficient at wining and dining guests – and at no time will you be more inundated than the Christmas period. We visit three festive residences – that of the Czech ambassador to the UK…
As the US breaks with the status quo by moving its embassy from Tel Aviv – and a spate of nations declare that they’re willing to follow suit – we assess Jerusalem’s potential as a diplomatic city.
France’s artistic reach in the US is in the hands of charismatic cultural counsellor Antonin Baudry. As part of a busy calendar the diplomat and authoris building a bookshop in France’s New York embassy; we popped in to…
Plans are underway to revive what was once one of the grandest embassies in Canada’s capital, Ottawa. The former US embassy, dating from 1932, was designed in the beaux arts style by Cass Gilbert, famed for his iconic…
France’s artistic reach in the US is in the hands of charismatic cultural counsellor Antonin Baudry. As part of a busy calendar the diplomat and author is building a bookshop in France’s New York embassy; we popped in to…
A fast-expanding embassy network and a clever use of its culture mean Brazil is making friends all around the world. Is this just an attempt to secure a seat
on the UN Security Council or an emerging nation trying to…
We meet José Luís Robaína García, Cuba's ambassador to New Zealand, for the first on our new series on diplomacy. We also look at the "diplomatic pouch", that slightly quaint method of shipping secret documents.
Raise a glass to small enterprises this Christmas with a beer brewed in the Holy Land itself. Carakale is Jordan’s first micro-brewery, situated just outside Amman and slowly gathering a roaring trade. It’s already on tap…
The Japanese prerfecture that leads the world that leads there world in LED making, the American company that keeps judges well-robed, and the Berlin coffee geeks on a cappuccino high.
How the world's diplomats joined together to get Americans behind a tougher environmental policy ahead of December's Copenhagen summit, Brazil's ambitious rail plans and how thee headcount is changing in North Dakota and…
In his three decades of foreign service, the US ambassador to the UAE has learned that art can play a powerful part in diplomacy, communicating in a way that transcends culture and language.