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Asia
Get in the Kim Jong II look in Style Leader (you'll need some Cuban heels), plus China's jet-set women and Indonesia casts its votes.
Americas
Why Americas need new gum control laws and the drugs cartels looking for new homes. Plus, our Washington column looks at how branding is selling the recovery package.
Karachi cops
Monocle spends a day with Karachi’s police chief as he worries about kit, corruption and crime stats as the Taliban gains ground in Pakistan. We also meet Afghanistan's presidential hopeful.
Coming home
Spain is offering citizenship to the descendants of those who fled its Civil War and the Franco regime. Should other nations with ageing populations do more to encourage their diaspora to return home?
Americas
The Obama's grand designs on their private White House living quarters, going Dutch in the Antilles, planting seeds of change in Detroit and the Interoceanic Highway near completion - maybe.
Prime time
Estonia has a modern image but faces old-fashioned issues. Prime Minister Andrus Ansip talks to Monocle about Russia, adopting the euro and his moral duty to send troops to Afghanistan.
Europe
The Uzbek social princess-cum-diplomat who is also a style Leader, clean living in Sweden, Why the Swiss love their guns and Moscow eyes the Vegas lifestyle.
New world order
The old global order is being destroyed, and governments are struggling. Joshua Ramo, author of ‘The Age of the Unthinkable’, explains why radical new thinking is our only hope for navigating an uncharted future.
Africa/Middle East
The motorcade of DRC president Joseph Kabila, why Hezbollah loves a DVD night in, and a spotlight on the forthcoming Lebanese election.
Africa/Middle East
An interview with South African political cartoonist Zapiro, Guinea's corrupt politicians get their come-uppance, and pilgrims go high-speed.
