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The city that shines
Home to visionary entrepreneurs and world-class architecture, this ambitious Australian city has earned a global reputation for business, tourism and education while boasting a laidback culture and high quality of life.
Soft Power Survey 2017/18
Who's in and who's out in 2017? We survey the top 25 nations who got it right (and wrong) in this most delicate of diplomatic skills.
Why start-ups thrive in Canada
To celebrate this year's soft power survey winner, we visit an emerging roster of budding businesses in Montreal. Canada's innovations minister Navdeep Bains reveals how the country is capitalising on the US's restrictive visa…
Softly does it
Our annual survey of the nations that best use their gentler sides to get things done.
Cities
Zürich is considering artificial islands to house its growing population and there’s a global push to unearth forgotten rivers.
Reversal of fortune
The former Brazilian president was a phenomenon before his fall from grace. But with elections approaching, is there one more twist in the tale of Lula?
High minded
Perched above the clouds, tiny San Marino has 17 centuries of history. With a bird’s-eye view of the world, its aloof attitude to foreign affairs is understandable but it wants a big voice.
Defence
The Afghan airforce’s new Black Hawk helicopters and a sartorial shift for the US army.
