■The world this week
Politics this week (2)
Business this week (1)
KAL's cartoon (1)

■Leaders
America's government shutdown
No way to run a country (387)
Climate science
Stubborn things (32)
Japan’s economy
Third arrow, please (4)
Ukraine and the European Union
West or east? (7)
Roundabouts
The widening gyre (25)

■Letters
Letters
On biodiversity, software jobs, unemployment (1)

■Briefing
America’s health-care upheaval
Will it get better? (11)

■United States
The federal government
Closed until further notice (38)
Detroit’s bankruptcy
Manna for Motown (2)
Eating roadkill
Critter fritters
New York City Opera
Final curtains (5)
Texan politics
Glamour, guns and acts of God (3)
Lexington
Cruz missile (31)

■The Americas
Nicaragua’s proposed canal
A man, a plan?and little else (7)
Railways in Buenos Aires
Not driving but sleeping (1)
Slavery reparations
Blood money (12)
Sports in Cuba
Go pro

■Asia
Japan and Abenomics
Taxing times (8)
Buddhism in South Korea
Monkey business (1)
Australia and Indonesia
Boats, cows and grass (1)
Bicycles and rickshaws in India
Four wheels good, two wheels bad (2)
Myanmar’s ethnic conflicts
Waiting for the dividend
Banyan
Still worth talking to (3)

■China
Shanghai Free Trade Zone
The next Shenzhen? (5)
Getting closer to the people
Critical masses (2)

■Middle East and Africa
Nigeria ruling party
Things fall apart (5)
Riots in Sudan
Bashing Bashir
Kenya
A murky aftermath (2)
An Israeli rabbi
What if he goes?
Syria’s chemical weapons
Can it be done? (2)
Iraq’s Kurds
Watch out for bad neighbours

■Europe
Italian politics
A duel gone wrong (8)
Greece’s neo-Nazis
Breakthrough or backlash (8)
German politics
Afraid of Angela (4)
Austria’s election
The Eurosceptics’ victory (1)
Turkish politics
After the protests (10)
Ukraine
Looking to the West (12)
Charlemagne
It’s the politics, stupid (3)

■Britain
London’s Tech City
Start me up
Tracking firearms
Guns for hire (1)
Ralph Miliband
Red Ed’s dead dad (7)
Police tactics
Searching questions
Help to Buy
Mortgage madness (4)
The politics of welfare reform
Divided they stand (1)
London Overground
In the loop (3)
Allotments
Garden state
Bagehot
Dave’s land of opportunity (17)
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■International
Chess
A sporting chance (5)
Road safety
Circling the globe (3)
Finding the missing
Dead link

■Business
Business creation in Germany
A slow climb (4)
Sunday trading
Closed for business (5)
The business of sport
Ultimate recognition (9)
The news business
Channel change (1)
Business in Libya
A post-Qaddafi pause
Business in Misrata
The can-do city
Specialty chemicals
Cleaning up
Schumpeter
Riding the wave (2)

■Finance and economics
Goldman Sachs
Reform school for bankers (11)
Buttonwood
The profits prophet (1)
The asset-quality review
Gentlemen, start your audits
Spanish banks
Health check (3)
Derivatives trading
Not with a bang (1)
Catastrophe bonds
Perilous paper (1)
The economics of cow ownership
Udder people’s money (1)
Free exchange
Hot air (6)

■Schools brief
Making banks safe
Calling to accounts (2)

■Science and technology
Climate science
Clouds of (slightly less) unknowing (23)
Academic publishing
Science’s Sokal moment (3)
Private space flight
Swans and Falcons (2)
Psychology
Time is not money (2)

■Books and arts
The maturing of democracy
Picking up the tab (2)
Outer space
To dream the impossible dream (4)
Britain, America and the nuclear bomb
Two-man race (1)
New fiction
See Naples and die
Tamara Mellon
Stacked heels
The art of Paul Klee
Shape-shifting

■Obituary
Robert Ford (5)

■Economic and financial indicators
Output, prices and jobs
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
The Economist commodity-price index
The Economist poll of forecasters, October averages (1)
Markets