Paraguay has been blighted by dictatorship, corruption and mismanagement. As the country goes to the polls will any candidate deliver real change? Many believe it’s now or never.
The tasks that await Australia's new PM, new urban projects for Auckland, why we might be hearing more from Tonga's King Tupou, plus a round-up of elections.
It’s been more than two decades since South Africa’s first democratic election and, while corruption allegations persist, there is some blue sky peeking through the clouds.
The leafy Rhode Island School of Design, a global leader in arts education, is buzzing about its new president: the freewheeling, commercially aware digital theorist and world-reknowned graphic designer John Maeda – a man…
Zimbabwe has a new leader who’s talking reform and wooing foreign investment. Is the rhetoric enough to reverse the country’s economic crash and restore international relations?
But only a third of countries have acknowledged it and the young state has no seat at the UN and is forbidden from playing in international football matches. However, in the capital, Pristina, they have a plan.
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The small California town of Ojai is within striking distance of Los Angeles, has a bubbling food scene and is famed for its native population of pixies. Grab a basket.
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Two years after the war with Israel, another battle was raging in Lebanon among its own people. But as the bullets flew, there was still time for mojitos – the Lebanese are used to surviving crises. Our correspondent…