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Defence
New Zealand invests in domestic helicopter pilot training while Iran unveils its latest fighter jet amid questions over indigenous manufacturing capabilities.
Downward trend
Killer heels, once status symbols, are now conspicuously absent from fashion-show front rows (and runways). How did they become out of step with the modern world?
Nairobi: building better cities
Kenya’s Karura Forest offers not only respite from the bustling capital but also a sense of pride for its citizens.
São Paulo: building better cities
Brazil’s business capital has reinvented its city centre through clever urbanism. We meet the architects, gallery owners and transport visionaries powering this change.
Cities Briefing
Animal welfare in Montréal, Munich reaches for the sky, tourism in Slovenia that’s the bee’s knees and Warsaw city councillor Jan Spiewak has his say.
Cometh the hour
Still basking in the warm afterglow of April’s peaceful revolution, Armenia’s prime minister Nikol Pashinyan knows the hard work starts now. Can he deliver what his people expect?
Social skills
Lebanon may be struggling with corruption and subject to foreign interference but the positivity and creativity of its populace are helping it to move forward.
Observation: Creative bloc
The artsy types at Eurolab think the EU’s tired branding has too easily ceded the field to nationalists and populists. We hear about their new vision.
Raising the dead
Years of silence have almost erased Spain’s civil war and General Franco’s atrocities from the collective consciousness but now the country is ready to speak out.
