Work is fun, literally, for Italian firm Zamperla, which has been making fairground rides big and small since the 1960s for places
ranging from Coney Island to Pyongyang. Monocle fastens its seatbelt.
When Turkmenistan’s President Niyazov died in 2006, it was the end of an eccentric personality cult. His successor promised to open the state up but today the gas-rich nation is still an enigma. Foreign journalists are…
Ten years after the death of Muammar Gaddafi, Libya faces numerous challenges – not to mention military standoffs – in its bid to become the Dubai of north Africa. Yet as Mary Fitzgerald, Monocle’s correspondent in the…