■The world this week
Politics this week
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KAL's cartoon (3)

■Leaders
Brazil’s presidential election
Why Brazil needs change (398)
Germany’s flagging economy
Build some bridges and roads, Mrs Merkel (2)
Chinese debt
The great hole of China (16)
British politics
Farage against the machine (36)

■Letters
On Africa, sexual consent, Turkey, jobs, Napoleon, welfare, Homer Simpson
Letters to the editor

■Briefing
Brazil’s presidential election
Looking for change (4)

■United States
After the mid-term elections
If the Republicans win the Senate... (23)
Obamacare and the mid-terms
The law that dare not speak its name (6)
Young voters
Let’s set the world on fire (3)
Iowa’s Senate race
The importance of being Ernst
Antitrust law
Tooth and justice (2)
The Neiman Marcus catalogue
Hold the myrrh (3)
Lexington
The politics of Guantánamo (7)

■The Americas
Mexico and impunity
When crime is unchecked (3)
Bello
The travails of ALBA

■Asia
Remaking India
Yes, prime minister (12)
Cleaning India
Eating dust (3)
Japan’s economy
Consumptive
Illiberalism in South Korea
Insult to injury
Banyan
Joko, we’re not in Solo any more
Correction

■China
Police firearms
Weaponised (5)
Hong Kong’s protests
Chipping away (5)
Pingyao
In banking’s shadow (2)

■Middle East and Africa
Syria
Tough, but bowing
The campaign against Islamic State
Hard choices (4)
Slavery in Islam
To have and to hold (18)
The Shia in Saudi Arabia
The sword unsheathed (2)
The status of Jerusalem
A mount of troubles (7)
South African politics
Shaking the kaleidoscope

■Europe
German politics
Sedating, not leading (1)
Germany’s parliament
Order, order!
Catalonia’s future
Mas observation (2)
Turkey and the Kurds
War-war, not jaw-jaw (4)
Bosnia’s elections
Wind of change (1)
Serbia’s government
Europe or Russia? (32)
Charlemagne
The squeezed middle (7)

■Britain
Politics
We are the 89% (5)
Air cargo
The freight debate (1)
Recognising Palestine
A state of things to come (11)
Supermarkets
Trolley wars Britain Only (5)
Economic regulation
Nudge nudge, think think Britain Only
Muslim Council of Britain
No one to talk to Britain Only (3)
The queen's knickers
Victoria’s secret Britain Only (1)
Property taxes
Lessons from Mr Smith Britain Only (2)
Bicycle rickshaws
Wild West End Britain Only (1)
Bagehot
Manhandling Britannia
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■International
The Ebola crisis
Much worse to come (6)
Portrait of a virus
A killer in close up

■Business
Grocery retailing in India
A long way from the supermarket (10)
German business and government
Still cosy?
Foreign entrepreneurs in China
Small is not beautiful (1)
Power distribution
Grid unlocked (2)
European chipmakers
Fighting back
Business in Myanmar
Let a million factories rise
Schumpeter
Pointers to the future (2)

■Finance and economics
Cheaper oil
Both symptom and balm (21)
Buttonwood
Bears, but no picnic (1)
Mobile payments
Emptying pockets (2)
Corporate taxation
Death of the Double Irish (3)
Monetary policy
Tight, loose, irrelevant (4)
Anti-Semitism
Another cost of bigotry (5)
Chinese debt
A moral deficit (2)
Free exchange
It’s complicated (1)

■Science and technology
Astrobiology
Bolts from the blue (2)
Hawking radiation
Sounds like the light idea
Planet hunting on the cheap
Sealing wax and string? (1)

■Books and arts
American politics
The great might-have-been
Education in America
Back against the blackboard (1)
Germany and the euro
Ordoliberalism revisited
History of fashion
Nonparelli
Polish history
Shtetl of honour

■Obituary
Obituary: Fred Branfman
An inconvenient truth (6)

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