From Mali to Martinique, every four years the best athletes from the French-speaking world gather for the Francophone Games. Monocle’s Steve Bloomfield reports from Nice on the event, which to France is about more than simply sport.

Smart new architecture and public transport infrastructure have turned Medellín into a success story. Monocle's video journalist Gabriel Leigh meets the people charting its course.

Monocle joins Norway's peace and reconciliation unit as they bring the Colombian government and FARC rebels to the negotiating table.

Since the Arab Spring gathered pace two years ago, Morocco has avoided the violent upheaval of its neighbours. Andrew Mueller and photographer Yoann Stoeckel travelled to Rabat to discover why.

They might not be slick or smart, they might be a bit dusty in the corners or a nightmare to navigate, and they won't be making our top 25 most liveable cities list any time soon. But who cares? One thing they are not, is boring. This is our list of this year's five most loveable cities.

In 2013, Copenhagen was the number one city in Monocle's annual Quality of Life Survey – Gabriel Leigh filmed this report last year.

Now, in 2014, Copenhagen has once again been crowned the winning city. To watch Monocle's 2014 Quality of Life film, [click here](http://monocle.com/film/affairs/quality-of-life-cities/)

This June saw the second annual New Cities Summit, this year held in São Paulo. From mayors to tech entrepreneurs, city-lovers gathered in Brazil’s business capital to take on some of our greatest urban challenges. Monocle was there to broadcast live from the Summit at the Oca Pavilion at Ibirapuera Park.

Our foreign editor, Steve Bloomfield, and photographer Sebastian Meyer visit Sulaymaniyah, the cultural capital of Iraqi Kurdistan to meet the artists, journalists and musicians putting the city on the map.

With the city’s bid to host the 2020 Olympics in full swing, the fabric of Istanbul is shaping up. We meet the cultural and commercial players flexing their muscles.

Hong Kong’s east side is a former industrial neighbourhood undergoing a renaissance. We explore the warehouses that are now home to stores, galleries and innovative start-ups moving away from downtown.