The 40 best gadgets of 2017
From smart-speakers and virtual bikes to robot vacuums and indestructible cables, here is the year’s most covetable technology
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Monaco builds into the Med to house new throng of super-rich
The tax haven has a luxury housing crisis – it doesn’t have enough land for the 2,700 multimillionaires forecast to settle there over the next decade
Azzedine Alaïa obituary
Fashion designer with a gift for personal couture whose clients included Grace Jones, Madonna and Naomi Campbell
The seven megatrends that could beat global warming: ‘There is reason for hope’
Until recently the battle to avert catastrophic climate change – floods, droughts, famine, mass migrations – seemed to be lost. But with the tipping point just years away, the tide is finally turning, thanks to innovations ranging from cheap renewables to lab-grown meat and electric airplanes
Tesla Roadster: nine things we know about the ‘smackdown to gasoline cars’
New electric supercar will break records according to Elon Musk, with blistering acceleration and 630-mile range. Here’s everything we know
Time for all of us to shine – why ‘glow’ is the big new beauty trend
The beauty business has gone big on ‘glow’, a multitasking term slapped on everything from body oil to blusher. But is it just a marketing ploy, or is there more to it?