Dispatches

Brazil’s bureaucracy is maddening, or so everyone says. But for one tantalising moment, our São Paulo bureau chief thought everyone might be wrong

Granted an audience with Donald Trump, our correspondent hoped to pin him down on foreign policy. Instead, he got to see one of his favourite anecdotes come to life

Britain and America have many things in common, but flag-waving patriotism is not one of them. Asked to sing the national anthem, one small ex-pat faced a big dilemma

It may be clichéd but it’s also true: Germans have no sense of humour. Our Berlin bureau chief explains why