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

■Leaders
Ukraine in flames
Putin’s inferno (313)
American trade policy
How to make the world $600 billion poorer (95)
A new prime minister in Italy
A man needs a mandate
Companies and the state
Plucking the goose (5)
Governing the oceans
The tragedy of the high seas (11)
Scottish independence
Pounded into submission (26)

■Letters
Letters
On deporting immigrants, handsome cyclists, the EU, Ecuador, Canada, sex and marriage (1)

■Briefing
Ukraine’s crisis
Europe’s new battlefield (138)

■United States
Trade policy
Taking aim at imports (6)
Water
The drying of the West (11)
Sentencing reform
Kinder, gentler (2)
Gay marriage
Loving’s labour’s won (3)
Public-sector pensions
Little Rhody, big debts (3)
Street sports
The dangers of dribbling (2)
“The Lego Movie”
The politics of little bricks (2)
Lexington
Faith and reason (13)
Correction: Saudi America

■The Americas
Protests in Venezuela
A tale of two prisoners (11)
Bello
Cooking up a business cluster (2)
Argentina’s new inflation index
Pricing power (2)
Colombia's armed forces
General exit

■Asia
North Korea
Humanity at its very worst (9)
Protests in Thailand
Stagnant revolution (2)
Kazakhstan’s economy
Tenge fever
Kazakhstan’s name
Don’t call me Stan (1)
Banyan
Preparing for opposition

■China
Local-government debt
Bridging the fiscal chasm
Students and the party
Rushing to join (3)
Chinese films
Thin ice

■Middle East and Africa
Iran and the West
Dismantling the wall
Syria’s civil war
The lessons of Geneva (4)
Libya’s turmoil
Little to celebrate (2)
Food security in the Gulf
How to keep stomachs full
Waste collection in Nigeria
Clean it up
Education in Kenya
Classroom divisions

■Europe
Italy’s new prime minister
A young man in a hurry
Spain and the Jews
1492 and all that (4)
Scandal in Germany
Entangled (1)
French culture wars
Everybody naked! (1)
French politics
A Sarkozy comeback?
Charlemagne
Homage to Caledonia (27)

■Britain
Scottish independence
Alex Salmond’s big problem (4)
Orkney’s archaeology
Dem bones
Patient data
Caring and sharing (1)
Transport in the north-east
Track changes (2)
Sacking MPs
Recall, recalled (1)
Prison architecture
Design and punishment
Police and social media
Inspector calls (1)
Bagehot
Whither the weather?
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■International
Governing the high seas
In deep water (1)
The oceans and climate change
A welcome pause

■Special report: Companies and the state
Companies and the state
A world of robber barons(5)
Tax
Plucking the geese(3)
Regulation
Tangled(1)
Ireland
The kindness of strangers(8)
Kentucky
Plumb centre(1)
Competition policy
Crossing continents(3)
Technology
Looking both ways
Business and immigration
A plea for open doors
Lobbying
Grey eminences(1)
Redefining the relationship
Partners not enemies(1)

■Business
Facebook and WhatsApp
Getting the messages (43)
Cyber-security
White hats to the rescue (1)
Company headquarters
Here, there and everywhere
Eike Batista’s assets
The great X-it
Trade unions in America
Chattanooga shoo-shoo (1)
Three-wheeled transport
Tuk-tuking the world by storm
Schumpeter
The wolves of the web (17)

■Finance and economics
Global banking
Inglorious isolation (2)
Buttonwood
Against the odds (3)
The economics of food subsidies
Feeding expectations (1)
OPEC and oil prices
Leaky barrels
Capital flows in Indonesia
Fragile no more
Derivatives
Data dump (2)
Cryptocurrencies
The great hiccup (1)
Free exchange
Valuing the long-beaked echidna

■Science and technology
The American Association for the Advancement of Science
In the beginning was the word (1)
Climate change
Jet set (1)
Solar energy
Stacking the deck (4)
Olfactory communication
Spot the difference
Restoring paintings
Artful illusion

■Books and arts
Futurism
Forza Italia
New fiction
Of love and other demons
The radical power of the web
Online, underground
Humans and mass extinction
Killing machines (1)
E.E. Cummings
Unravelling a life
Lincoln’s official biographers
Both the president’s men

■Obituary
Irving Milchberg (6)

■Economic and financial indicators
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