Olympic city legacies: Montreal’s cautionary tale, Eleanor Fawcett London’s Olympic plans, and a visit to a still-flourshing 1960s Olympic village in Rome.

The reaction from Rome and Buenos Aires on the election of the first Argentinian Pope, we also talk cyber warfare, and ask what expect of Samsung’s new handset.

Buenos Aires, Casablanca, Kagoshima, Rome and Seoul are never going to make the top 25 of our Liveable Cities index but despite their various impediments – from creaking services to epic traffic problems – they are all…

Elliott Gotkine reports from Tel Aviv, we get business news from Moscow, and hear from the IHT Luxury Conference in Rome, and hear from our correspondent in Belgrade.

Peter Felstead of Jane's Defence Weekly explains how a potential UK mission to Mali would look, we review the week's top aviation stories, and discuss a makeover for Rome’s Trevi Fountain.

Journalist Anshel Pfeffer on Israel's Iron Dome defence system, Steve Bloomfield updates us from the Arctic Council, and we jet to the IHT Luxury Conference in Rome.

Professor Scott Lucas looks beneath the surface of John Kerry’s meeting in Rome with the Syrian opposition, we discuss the legacy of Pope Benedict with Peter Stanford, and Tristan McAllister gives a review of the week’s top…

We see how Pakistan views Pervez Musharraf after his return from exile, learn why an ex-Detroit mayor is being charged with racketeering, and meet papal scholar George Weigel in Rome.

As the pope resigns we find out what happens next with Robert Mickens, Rome correspondent for The Tablet, we assess the prospects for peace in Mali following another suicide attack in Gao and we profile former comedian…