Tourism in the Caribbean and trade links between the Middle East and Latin America.

The challenges facing Papua New Guinea's new prime minister, solving a housing shortage in Darwin, and why Kiwi students are being spared Shakespeare.

The ins and outs of Mercosur, the speeding up of California's trains, and the other big ballot in America.

Once again, we've been busy applying the annual Monocle metrics test to cities across the globe. Here are the results.

The city has the luxury of sitting on Asia’s doorstep. This is great news but it needs to put it to use.

New flights from Tokyo to Yangon, why the French are lighting up Cambodia, and Japan gets creative.

We examine Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff's image makeover, report on Qatar's investment in the US property market and bring you the view from Bogotá.

Whoever ends up sat in the Oval Office come January next year will have a huge job on his hands but also a massive opportunity. Here is Monocle’s advice.

We get to grips with the Belgian PM's colourful sense of style. Plus a Q&A with European Commissioner Karel de Gucht and news from Lisbon and Liechtenstein.

Monocle speaks to Haitian presidential candidate Leslie Voltaire and gets news from the Andes. Plus Sasha Issenberg's View from Washington.

For our Quality-of-Life issue, Monocle has been busy researching the world’s top cities. And with a re-jig of the way each urban centre is assessed, this year’s top 25 promises some surprises.

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…

They may not have come top in Monocle’s chart but the cities ranked 11 to 20 are still all great places to live. They didn’t make the first 10 because some lacked a real metropolitan buzz, while others failed to deliver on…