Lots of everything, jam-packed into a tiny country – that’s the Netherlands, explains Roger St. Pierre

The teeming, never-sleeping metropolis of Sao Paulo has been the wealthiest city in Brazil for a long time. Now, as David Neville Williams discovers, it has finally achieved its dream of becoming the New York of the southern hemisphere

Know as Europe’s hottest city, both for its location on a geothermal ridge and its pulsating night life, Iceland’s capital is in the midst of an economic renaissance and a business trip there provides the perfect excuse to sample some clean living. David Neville Williams enjoys a fjord fiesta

Roger St. Pierre introduces ‘The World’s Happiest Nation’

Shanghai, meaning above and sea, is an inordinately fitting name for the city that’s overtaken Rotterdam as the world’s busiest port. Situated on the banks of the Yangtze River Delta, Shanghai is already China’s largest city. But developments there are about to shift into overdrive

It may be just a three-hour flight from the UK, but Iceland can seem like another world with its apocalyptic scenery, midnight sunshine and platters of pot-roasted puffin, as Jennifer Bradly uncovers