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Live the dream
In the start of a regular series we look at potential bases for your HQ: first up, an Aussie town where your work life comes with a surf lifestyle too.
Quality of Life Survey: top 25 cities, 2017
From Amsterdam to Zürich, find out who's up and who's down in our global ranking of the best cities in the world to live in.
Express delivery
Henry Ford and Interstate highways put paid to the US railway’s glory years but new higher-speed projects could make riding the tracks part of life once more. One day, anyway.
Back to the future
We look at Berlin’s new airport and why it’s still grounded, question the future of driverless cars and discover why the electric vehicle remains the perennial “car of tomorrow”.
Politics
The Oregon governor who's the antithesis of Donald Trump, a ne'er-do-well election line-up in Liberia and overdue renovations at Vienna's Hofburg Palace.
China in his hands?
Xi Jinping may be popular, but with a worsening economy, dangerous pollution and a new relationship with the US, how strong is the president’s grip on his country?
Persian party
War left the Turkish city of Van bereft of visitors – but it’s being transformed by Iranians in search of the good life.
Clouds on the horizon
From its base in Austria’s capital, the International Atomic Energy Agency keeps a weather eye on global nuclear risks. According to its head, Yukiya Amano, the outlook has rarely been stormier.
