01Luiz Inácio ‘Lula’ da Silva
02Barack Obama
03Manmohan Singh
04Donald Tusk
05Recep Tayyip Erdogan
06Julia Gillard
07Jacob Zuma
08Dmitry Medvedev
09Rodriguez Zapatero
10Jóhanna Sigurdardóttir
11Naoto Kan
12Stephen Harper
13Angela Merkel
14Nicolas Sarkozy
15Silvio Berlusconi
In the world of politics, September is the start of a new term in many countries, so we’ve compiled our report cards for 15 leaders. Who has gone to the top of the class and who should be doing extra homework? We give marks for popularity and performance and dock points for bad behaviour.
Issue 41
Hong Kong chief executive Donald Tsang's motorcade and India's embrace of ID cards
Issue 31
Sweden cracks down on "sickies", Hungary's and Slovakia's war of words, and Paris trials electric-car sharing.
Issue 20
What Finland's president, Tarja Halonen, has in her motorcade, why Russia's building boom has hit the brakes, and how the Vatican is doing its bit in the fight against climate change.
Issue 50
Houston, in oil-rich Texas, isn’t a city you might associate with progressive or green credentials. And yet its inhabitants have just re-elected Annise Parker, a liberal who has put renewable energy firmly on the agenda,…
Issue 31
We give Israeli opposition leader Tzipi Livni the once over for this issue's Style Leader, plus Uganda's police chief goes on a "fat attack".
Issue 46
The view from Lisbon, a look ahead at the UK's party conference season and Paris's public public transport push.
Issue 37
An interview with the rear admiral in charge of an anti-piracy operation in the Horn of Africa, plus a round-up of the latest arms deals and military news around the world.
Issue 47
With the sudden exit from Mogadishu of Islamist insurgents, life in the Somali capital has shifted yet again. Just as war has abated, famine has arrived. Who can fix this ravaged city?
Issue 36
The brief: to persuade Afghanis to take pride in their national army, to shun terrorism and to give up the narcotics trade. Not an easy task in a country where war has been raging for nine years and where the population is…
Issue 44
Monocle meets the Maltese prime minister to talk about how his small country is dealing with the influx of immigrants from North Africa, his views on the Libya conflict and his vision for transforming Malta into a modern…
Issue 44
The wave of revolutions shaking up the world started in Tunisia. What happens after you’ve dislodged your dictator? Also for our series on the Arab spring, see how Malta is coping as Libya collapses (page 30) and how Turkey…
Issue 45
Dallas revamps its image, Caracas clears the way for pedestrians and Buenos Aires puts books on buses.
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