They will also be taught about "cross-cultural awareness", language for international negotiations, devising market strategies and information analysis.

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The Ulster-Scots Agency is a cross-border government agency set up under the Good Friday Agreement to promote the Ulster-Scots language and culture.

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The cross-party committee said a number of former ambassadors had stressed the importance of speaking the local language when posted abroad, one suggesting any downgrading of linguistic competence would be a "terrible mistake".

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Labour Peer Lord Ivor Richard, Chair of a Cross Party Commission that reviewed Assembly powers in 2004 also warns that the mechanism, known in Parliamentary language as "Henry VIII powers" will "raise a few eyebrows" in the upper house.

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Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited, a new tribute album, turns a cross-section of contemporary artists Cat Power and Michael Stipe among them loose on English-language versions of some of his best-known songs.

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