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Screen Australia’s Chief Executive, Graeme Mason, said that both local and international audiences were responding positively to strong, distinctive Australian content across both film and television, and that 2014 is set to be a great year for Australian stories.

Pivot, the cable network from Participant Media targeting Generation Y, and Univision News, the award-winning news division of Univision Communications Inc., the leading media company serving Hispanic America, have acquired the U.S. TV rights to ‘Cesar’s Last Fast’ from Richard Ray Perez and Lorena Parlee in advance of its world debut at the Sundance Film Festival. The deal marks the first of ten documentaries to be co-produced or acquired by Pivot and Univision News (and Latin World Entertainment) as part of a previously announced alliance. The documentary will premiere simultaneously in English and Spanish on the two networks – Pivot and the Univision Network– respectively. The announcement was made by Evan Shapiro, President, Pivot and Isaac Lee, President of Univision News and CEO of Fusion.

Umeå in Sweden and Riga in Latvia are Europe's Cultural Capitals for 2014. Inaugurated in 1985 in Athens, Cultural Capitals highlight the diversity and richness of European culture while also fostering a European identity. More than 40 cities around Europe have already had the honour and since 2011 two cities from two different EU countries share the title each year.

Swiss flags. Switzerland chairs the OSCE in 2014.

The 8th annual meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguard of Intangible Heritage, marked by the 10th anniversary of UNESCO’s Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Heritage, ended in Baku with the election of Peru as Chair of the next session which will take place in Paris, France, from 24 to 28 November 2014.

Linguistics researchers will study public and private interactions in four of the UK’s cities which use multiple languages, for example Welsh, Polish or Urdu, to help policy-makers better understand how to communicate with people across different languages and cultures.

The United Nations family mourned the loss – and celebrated the enduring legacy – of Nelson Mandela, the former South African leader and peace advocate who passed away at the age of 95.

The inscription of elements on the Urgent List helps States Parties to UNESCO’s Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Heritage to mobilize international cooperation and assistance to ensure the transmission of this heritage with the participation of the concerned communities.

The inscription of elements on the Urgent List helps States Parties to UNESCO’s Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Heritage to mobilize international cooperation and assistance to ensure the transmission of this heritage with the participation of the concerned communities.