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

■Leaders
Privatisation
The $9 trillion sale (32)
France’s economic woes
Can Francois do a Gerhard? (10)
Drug legalisation
Of bongs and bureaucrats
Securitisation
It’s back (7)
Britain’s planning laws
An Englishman’s home (6)

■Letters
Letters
On France, hotels, Heathrow, Iran, William Petty, films, our "country of the year"

■Briefing
State-owned assets
Setting out the store (1)
Privatisation in Greece
Hellishly Hellenic (1)

■United States
The economy
Is this the year growth takes off? (1)
Marijuana legalisation
High time (8)
Tobacco and health
Where there’s smoke
Robert Gates’s memoir
Everything was political
New Orleans mayoral election
No switch for Mitch
Criminal justice
Fishy tales (1)
Positive parenting
Beyond the naughty step (2)
Chris Christie
A bridge too far? (3)
Lexington
The Robin Hood trap (4)

■The Americas
Tensions in Argentina
Holding the ring (2)
Correction: Argentina’s maize harvest
Reforms in Cuba
Seat belt, mirrors, brake (1)
Mexico’s cowboy pilgrims
Saddle up, kneel down (2)

■Asia
Bangladesh’s election
Another beating (11)
Cambodian democracy
Bruised, bloodied and probably broken
Politics in India
Stirring the pot (3)
Banyan
The trouble with democracy (4)

■China
Urban renewal (1)
New frontiers
Urban renewal (2)
Not so grim up north-west
Death of a film mogul
Kung fu fight king (1)

■Middle East and Africa
Syria, Iraq and al-Qaeda
The jihadists may have gone too far (28)
Israel and Palestine
He may be getting somewhere, after all (14)
Egypt and its referendum
Back to the bad habits of the past? (3)
Rural decline in Iran
Nothing idyllic (1)
South Africa
Family feuds

■Europe
France
Francois Hollande, liberal? (2)
Angela Merkel’s pelvis
Dangerous even at low speed
Balkan politics
Serbian shenanigans
Latvia’s government
New currency, new leader
Italian politics
Left upset (2)
Charlemagne
Aegean stables (1)

■Britain
House-building
Breaking the stranglehold (1)
Ornithological trends
This bird has flown
The coalition
Off the chart
Chiltern Railways
The engine that could
Broadband
More haste, less speed
Affluent Liverpool
Penny lane (1)
Atlantic storms
Tiddly om…
Legal aid
Crime doesn’t pay
Bagehot
The weathermaker
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■International
Jewishness
Who is a Jew? (40)

■Business Books Quarterly
Corporate culture
Learning the lingo(1)
Entertainment companies
Give me another hit(2)
American banks
Not big enough(1)
Business strategy and technology
The Big Bang Theory

■Business
Big carmakers
Kings of the road
Electric cars
Charging into America (1)
IBM
A cure for the Big Blues (5)
Samsung
Fluffed lines
German weapons firms
No farewell to arms (3)
Cruise operators
Sailing into headwinds (2)
Cosmetics
Because it’s no longer worth it (1)
Schumpeter
From dodo to phoenix

■Finance and economics
The return of securitisation
Back from the dead (1)
The return of IPOs
Back with a boom
Turkey’s economy
The mask is off (6)
Euro-area economy
In the danger zone (1)
Private placements
Ex uno, plures
New York city’s retirement funds
Pension complex
Energy subsidies
Fuelling controversy (2)
Free exchange
This time is worse

■Science and technology
Astronomy
Planetology comes of age (1)
Diabetes and insulin
Not-so-bitter pill
Academic publishing
No peeking… (14)
Biomedical research budgets
The party’s over (1)
The Richard Casement internship

■Books and arts
Protest in Russia
Riotous assembly (20)
Rubbish
Plastic arts
Literary ladies
Come the X-chromosome
Chinese fiction
Learning to live
New cinema: “Her”
I me mine (4)

■Obituary
Mikhail Kalashnikov (1)

■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, January averages
Markets