■The world this week
Politics this week
Business this week
KAL's cartoon (4)

■Leaders
Finance in America
Subterranean capitalist blues (97)
The euro zone
Europe’s other debt crisis (18)
South Korea’s education system
The great decompression (15)
Puerto Rico
Greece in the Caribbean (25)
Trade liberalisation
Canada doesn’t get any sexier than this (19)

■Letters
Letters
On the north of England, Brazil, tax, start-ups, paddles

■Briefing
The new American capitalism
Rise of the distorporation (4)

■United States
Health reform
Computer says no (86)
After the shutdown
Where next? (1)
Pension reform in California
Mayors to the rescue (4)
Haunted houses
More boo for your buck (1)
Georgia politics
Raw Deal (1)
Raising children
Apps for brats
Metropolitan trade
Open cities
Lexington
Bush’s legacy (11)

■The Americas
Brazil’s oil auction
Cheap at the price (17)
The Canada-EU trade deal
Atlantic accord (2)
Farming in Colombia
Conflict’s harvest (1)
Argentina’s wealth gap
Barbarians at the gate (6)

■Asia
Indian foreign affairs
Eastern promise (2)
India, China and the Maldives
Maldivided (4)
Geothermal geopolitics in Korea
Another rumbler
The future of Laos
A bleak landscape (2)
Marine protected areas
Pitcairn’s bounty (1)
Banyan
Across the party wall

■China
Juvenile crime
Hard times (3)
Feeding 1.36 billion people
Daily bread (5)
Popular pastimes
Dancing queens (10)
Press freedom
New-found teeth (4)

■Middle East and Africa
India and Africa
Elephants and tigers
Guinea’s election
Investors need reassurance
Education in South Africa
Class action
The Sudans
Big fight over a small place
Saudi diplomacy
Pique your partners (11)
Saudi Arabia’s women drivers
Ovarian issue (1)

■Europe
German politics
In search of the right partner
French politics
A mishandled muddle
Spain and ETA
The assassin walks free (3)
Hungarian politics
Bitter battle ahead (4)
Germany and America
Bugging Mrs Merkel (109)
Turkey’s infrastructure
The sultan’s dream (2)
Charlemagne
A democratic nightmare (4)

■Britain
Illegal immigration
Over the top (2)
Scotland’s lucky MPs
Cosa Scotia (1)
Energy
Nuke it (1)
High-speed rail
A slow start (2)
Sunday Assemblies
Wholly spirit (1)
Public finances
The weakest links (2)
Chemicals and independence
Bubbling over
Bagehot
Duelling with Michael Gove (3)
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■International
Cash to the poor
Pennies from heaven (1)

■Special report: The Koreas
Parallel worlds(6)
Nuclear North Korea
Bad or mad?(2)
Demography
The 54th parallel(2)
Women in South Korea
A pram too far
A life of drudgery
Education
The other arms race(1)
Business
Corporate armistice(1)
Sing me a new song
Better lives
Snakes’ heads and dragons’ tails(2)

■Business
Mexico’s maquiladoras
Big maq attack
A Mexican start-up
Border buzz (1)
China’s outward investment
The second wave (2)
University presses
Homes for tomes
Tablet computers
Overdose (5)
Building brands in Africa
Pyramid scheme (1)
Telecoms in Algeria
A lost generation
Bangladesh’s clothing industry
Bursting at the seams (1)
Schumpeter
The Omidyar way of giving

■Finance and economics
The euro crisis
Debtors’ prison (2)
Fixing Europe’s banks
Cleaning the Augean stables (2)
Buttonwood
If you build it, they will fund
Spread betting
Going global (3)
Athletic investment
Skin in the game (2)
Financing Europe’s small businesses
Capital remedy
Mortgage-related bank fines
Payback time for subprime (8)
Puerto Rico’s debt crisis
Puerto Pobre (6)
Free exchange
A natural long-term rate

■Science and technology
Interstellar travel
Starship troupers (20)
The economics of interstellar flight
Starship enterprises (1)
Infidelity
Not so horny (4)
HIV and mothers’ milk
As luck would have it (1)

■Books and arts
New American fiction
Birdsong
Central American emigrants
Beastly business
Lucian Freud
Dishing it up
The making of Amsterdam
Freedom of the city
Royal Bank of Scotland
What a disaster
The birth of abstraction
Supreme

■Obituary
Erich Priebke
Just following orders (10)

■Economic and financial indicators
Output, prices and jobs
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
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