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

■Leaders
Nelson Mandela
Invictus (9)
India
Would Modi save India or wreck it? (220)
Crackdown in Ukraine
Goodbye, Putin (40)
World trade
Life after Doha (4)
Minimum wages
The logical floor (66)
The Volcker rule
Hedge-trimming (15)

■Letters
Letters
On India, Thailand, Iran, China, immigration, Napoleon, motorcycles, brains (2)

■Briefing
Narendra Modi
A man of some of the people (58)

■United States
The budget deal
Making nice (5)
The politics of low pay
Raising the floor (126)
Health and education in Kentucky
Where Obamacare dare not speak its name (8)
Health reform
Faint signs of recovery (4)
Christmas music
Dreaming of a hip-hop Christmas (1)
Voter identification
Mischief at the polls (11)
Religious pluralism
Beelzebubba (4)
Lexington
The marriage gap (62)
Correction: Not even past (1)

■The Americas
Venezuela’s municipal elections
Maduro’s hollow victory (15)
Reforms in Mexico
Oil’s well that ends well (8)
Democracy in Colombia
The bumptious functionary (9)
EU-Mercosur trade talks
Strategic patience runs out (17)

■Asia
Thailand’s political crisis
Deadlock (19)
Singapore
Trouble in Little India
Japan
Potent protests
Indian politics
Sweeping up (8)
Banyan
Crying uncle (6)

■China
Genetically modified crops
Food fight (8)
Football
Keepy uppy (3)
Foreign correspondents
Personae non gratae (2)

■Middle East and Africa
South Africa after Mandela
A question of leadership (19)
Bahrain
Trouble ahead (5)
Syria’s war
An inconvenient truth (10)
The Dead Sea
Emptying out (1)

■Europe
Ukraine’s protests
The birth of the nation? (227)
Liberalism in Germany
Dead or just resting? (6)
Turkish politics
Erdogan v Gulen (16)
Italian politics
Heading off the populists (10)
Charlemagne
Banking on a new union (11)

■Britain
Immigration
The Polish paradox (60)
Military reform
No go, GOCO (1)
Celebrating smallness
Independence day
Department stores
Are they being preserved?
Flood insurance
Sea change (3)
Local television
Small-town views (1)
Welfare reform
Don’t ask for credit
Bagehot
Time to change tune (3)
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■International
Dirty bombs
Glowing in the dark (1)
Disability
Who counts? (2)

■Business
Comcast’s future
Thinking outside the set-top box (4)
Companies and emissions
Carbon copy (5)
British lawyers in Dubai
Money for old laws (1)
Christmas trees
Boughs of jolly
Restructuring European aerospace
Enders justifying means
GM’s next boss
Detroit’s first lady
The journey of an Indian onion
Lords of the rings (2)
American food distribution
Meal deal
Schumpeter
Ties that bind (7)

■Finance and economics
The Volcker rule
More questions than answers (1)
The World Trade Organisation
Unaccustomed victory (2)
The Australian dollar
Buoyant (2)
Oil prices
Spreading disarray (3)
Corporate entertaining in Japan
Kanpai! (1)
Voting rights at the ECB
New club rules (2)
Private banking in Switzerland
Dis-closure (4)
Free exchange
Random harvest (2)

■Science and technology
Epigenetics
Poisoned inheritance (30)
The history of life
A warm little pond? (6)
Scientific publication
What’s wrong with Science (12)
Sharks and humans
He’s behind you! (5)
Geomorphology
Gopher broke

■Books and arts
A history of Israel
Song to Zion
Pre-Christian Britain
More questions than answers (2)
Business takeovers
Mad merger men (1)
Selling fine art
Purse of the beholder
Rene Redzepi’s approach to food
Carrots and sticks (1)
Renaissance painting
The greatest (1)

■Obituary
Nelson Mandela (4)

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