■The world this week
Politics this week (3)
Business this week
KAL's cartoon (7)

■Leaders
Iran
The revolution is over (184)
America’s mid-term elections
The silent centre (14)
Family companies
Relative success (4)
After Brazil’s election
Diehard Dilma (53)
Rule of law in China
China with legal characteristics (28)

■Letters
On books, Germany, Taiwan, schools, Ebola, UKIP, homosexuals, the Pet Shop Boys
Letters to the editor (1)

■Briefing
Religion in China
Cracks in the atheist edifice (52)

■United States
The mid-term elections
What they’re all about (49)
The governors’ races
Running after Walker (5)
Ballot initiatives
Of pot and personhood (1)
Kentucky’s Senate race
The new master of the Senate? (3)
Georgia’s Senate race
Nunn v. tycoon (2)
Explaining run-offs
Not over yet
The politics of tax cuts
Brownbackonomics on the ballot (56)
Lexington
Flags over the Capitol (6)

■The Americas
Brazil’s presidential race
By a whisker, more of the same (4)
Cannabis in Chile
Easing the agony (3)
Bello
The dogs bark in Colombia (86)

■Asia
Malaysia
A lousy sequel (1)
Politics and the past in Bangladesh
Dialling down (8)
Prostitution in India
Make it legal (6)
Taiwan and Hong Kong
Told you so (23)
New Zealand’s identity
Clashing with the sunset (12)
Banyan
The city on the hill (1)

■China
Politics
Rules of the party (1)
Corruption in the housing market
To those that have
The law at work
No more rooms (7)

■Middle East and Africa
Extremist ideology
Jail, jihad and exploding kittens (5)
The war against Islamic State
The Kurdish Stalingrad (119)
Tunisia’s election
The secularists have it
Libyan oil
A sticky problem
Nuclear talks with Iran
Diplomatic spin (3)
Zimbabwe
The Mugabe brawl (3)
Ebola
A glimmer of hope (3)

■Europe
Ukraine’s election
Good voters, not such good guys (24)
Russia and the West
Hard talk (44)
Turkey and Europe
Problems with neighbours (41)
French public finances
Budget, fudge it (7)
Germany’s far left
Thuringia’s November revolution
Charlemagne
The Environmental Union (6)

■Britain
Austerity and the law
Justice in a cold climate (3)
War memorials
Bringing it home (2)
Sperm donors
Nice to gamete you (1)
Housing
Nimble opposition Britain Only (3)
The fitness industry
It works out cheaper Britain Only (3)
Home brewing
A pint well made Britain Only
Scottish Labour
Caledonian conundrum Britain Only (3)
Data-driven cities
City slicker Britain Only (1)
Bagehot
Ho for the open sea! (17)
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■International
Illicit e-commerce
The Amazons of the dark net (6)
Happiness and income
Everything that rises must converge (3)

■Special report: Iran
The revolution is over(14)
Religion
Take it or leave it(1)
Domestic politics
Rush to the centre
The hardliners
Goon squad(5)
The economy
Melons for everyone(9)
Sanctions
Shackled
The neighbours
Moving targets(2)
Prospects
We shall overcome, maybe(1)

■Business
Family firms
Business in the blood (4)
French companies
Room at the top
Companies and the Ebola outbreak
Still open for business
Vaccine-makers and Ebola
Giving it a shot
Insolvency and commercial disputes
Caught up in the courts
Business in Iran
Awaiting the gold rush (1)
Schumpeter
Creative capitalism (1)

■Finance and economics
Deutsche Bank
A weary lender (1)
Buttonwood
Eliminate the negative (1)
European banks
Stress relief (5)
Japanese investment in South-East Asia
Outward bound (1)
Institutional investors
In-house revolt

■Science and technology
Stem-cell research
Having the stomach for it (1)
Private space flight
Oops... (33)
Genes and behaviour
Next candidate (11)
Orphan technologies
A phoenix rises (5)

■Books and arts
New fiction
Amazing grace
American photography
Hotshots
Nepal
Between a rock and a high place
Capitalism through the ages
A grand tour (4)
The history of surgery
Suffering for their art

■Obituary
Obituary: Gough Whitlam
Caesar in Canberra (9)

■Economic and financial indicators
Interactive indicators
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Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
The Economist commodity-price index
Gender equality
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