■The world this week
Politics this week
Business this week
KAL's cartoon (8)

■Leaders
Corporate settlements in the United States
The criminalisation of American business (124)
The euro zone
That sinking feeling (again) (85)
NATO’s summit
Mr Putin’s wake-up call (144)
India in Asia
Eastern promises (5)
Ceasefire in Gaza
A war without winners (21)

■Letters
On the sex business, Scotland, Iraq, college sports, Newfoundland
Letters to the editor (4)

■Briefing
Criminalising the American company
A mammoth guilt trip (21)

■United States
New Hampshire’s Senate race
Casting stones in the Granite State
Domestic work in the South
The Help, updated (3)
South Dakota
Quietly booming
Alaska’s bush country
Hunting for dividends (4)
Foreign students
Coming and going (2)
Dogs in restaurants
Bone appétit (3)
Lexington
The Rand Paul bubble (24)

■The Americas
Colombia’s peace process
The moment of truth (1)
The Caribbean
Twelve clueless men (1)
Peru’s media
Liberty’s enfant terrible

■Asia
India looks east
A strenuous September (29)
Alcohol in Kerala
Saturation point (7)
Japan’s right wing
Unwelcome change (27)
Indonesian politics
Great expectations
Banyan
Passing the torch

■China
State-owned enterprises
Fixing China Inc (5)
Religious sects
No-cult zone (15)

■Middle East and Africa
European jihadists
It ain’t half hot here, mum (35)
The hostage trade
Handsome ransoms (1)
A ceasefire in Gaza
Long may it hold (23)
Libya
Anarchy looms (6)
South Africa and its parliament
Red-letter day (1)

■Europe
France’s government
Adieu, Cuba à la française (18)
French political fiction
What if it were true?
Germany’s economy
Watching the wages (1)
Berlin’s mayor
Wowi bows out (1)
Ukraine and Russia
War, not peace (194)
Turkey’s new government
Davutoglu’s moment (19)

■Britain
Sexual exploitation
See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil (69)
Scotland’s referendum endgame
A war of attrition (7)
Business and Scottish independence
Grouse more (5)
Oil and gas
Mud wrestling (1)
Civil liberties
Speak loudly but carry no stick
Buses
Up to speed
Architecture
Nasty, brutish and tall (1)
High streets
Strange town (1)
Bagehot
David Cameron’s half-cocked war (2)
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■International
The future of NATO
NATO flexes its muscle memory (8)

■Business
Marketing
What are brands for? (10)
Accounting for brands
Untouchable intangibles (4)
Cloud computing
Silver lining (2)
Online gaming
Streaming down the Amazon
Burger King
Seventh time lucky? (12)
Natural gas in China
Shale game (12)
Schumpeter
A new green wave (2)

■Finance and economics
Popping property bubbles
Choosing the right pin (5)
Global property markets
Frothy again (1)
Israel’s economy
Shekeled and bound (10)
Japan’s bond market
Quantitative freezing (2)
Superstitious investors
Black-cat market
Free exchange
Fluid dynamics

■Science and technology
Biotechnology
A new opium pipe (1)
Pseudo-satellites
The west wind blows afresh
Animal colouration
Now you see me...
Precambrian animals
Making an impression

■Books and arts
Modern Asian leaders
No unity in diversity (2)
Prison in America
Protection rackets (1)
Technology
Will the internet eat your brain? (10)
Fiction
Multiple imaginings
Food writing
Filling up
Michelangelo
The maestro’s maestro (2)

■Obituary
Obituary
Simin Behbahani (4)

■Economic and financial indicators
Interactive indicators
Output, prices and jobs
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
The Economist commodity-price index
Markets
Poverty in Asia