How Hungarian troops are adapting to Afghanistan and who is buying which weapons from whom.

Strung out across Southeast Asia is a chain of restaurants where doll-like North Korean waitresses sing to diners as they sample the country’s cuisine (well, what’s left of it). Is it a benign culinary business foray or…

Native American tribes in the US and Canada have become powerful business and political forces and have learnt how to get Obama and Ottawa on their side. Monocle meets the chiefs leading the renaissance.

Cricket in the US, a possible Obama challenger, and Argentina's cash crisis

We sign up for a degree at the University of Seychelles, Iraq's foreign food shopping list grows as droughts dry up the rivers, Israel takes commuting to new lengths and Angola at last rebuilds... sort of.

Marines are told to get some real muscle, shark-skin technology for subs, China joins the international effort to tackle piracy, and new RPG protection for vehicles.

Ouagadougou is spruced up by an army of low-cost cleaners, Congo's governor gets to work on a failing region, plus Abu Dhabi's new transport system.

Huntsville, Alabama is a global player in the defence and aerospace industries but in order to ensure its economic future it must diversify. It’s looking to bio-tech to not only attract top researchers and entrepreneurs,…

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.

Chile’s first female president, Michelle Bachelet, was tortured as a student under Pinochet’s rule and lived in exile for nearly five years. As her term comes to an end, Monocle talks to the popular leader about male cha…