Raphaëlle Martin
The opener
Our pack of far-flung correspondents weigh in with a sampling of weird and wonderful things happening across the world, from a 100-year-old Canadian landscape designer’s achievements to some mind-beagling treats for your pooch.
The opener
Sustainable design solutions, scintillating marketing campaigns and cool cigarettes – the latest from around the globe.
Time for a reboot
From visionary aerospace companies to powerful boat-makers, Italy is home to a far-reaching crop of mobility players. We meet the transport-industry movers that are pioneering smarter and greener ways of travelling and commuting.
Affairs Briefing
Trump brings the fight to mayors, how India tested China’s resolve with a road, Germany learns from medical evacuations and the evolving role of landscaping.
Are we nearly there yet?
With Porsche's Taycan drawing 20,000 advance orders and the Pininfarina Battista stealing Geneva's spotlight, 2019 is the year electric cars finally shed their worthy, worthy image and become genuinely desirable.
Politics
Women staking a claim to power, paper problems in Turkey and a new populist party in Canada.
In the shadows
Private detectives are almost as mysterious as the cases they solve. We go undercover with a Parisian sleuth.
