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

■Leaders
Innovation
Time to fix patents (72)
Polish politics
The German test (25)
China’s leaders
Party on the beach (4)
Financial supervision
One regulator to rule them all (2)
Science’s unsolved mysteries
Life, the multiverse and everything (9)

■Letters
On Jonathan Pollard, Singapore, families, America’s South, Africa, Britain and Europe
Letters

■United States
Climate change and the president
Hotter than August (8)
The wisdom of crowds
Sound of the Trump (8)
Gay marriage: the aftermath
To have and to hold (3)
The western drought
Concrete oasis (2)
Brooklyn, the myth
Still bearded (2)
Ferguson a year on
Some kind of normal (1)
Lexington
The politics of the Iran deal (8)

■The Americas
Canada’s election campaign
Long, but not boring
Pollution in the Great Lakes
Evil orbs
Brazil’s space programme
Ten, nine, ten... (9)
Bello
An edifice in search of a function (2)

■Asia
North Korea’s new monied classes
Bread and circuses (1)
Politics in Australia
Choppergate
History wars in Taiwan
Examiner examined (3)
India’s north-east
The spoils of peace (3)
Religion in Indonesia
With God on whose side? (4)
Banyan
The 70-year itch (6)

■China
Beidaihe summit
Silent waves
Urban floods
At sea in the city (1)

■Middle East and Africa
Public services in the Arab world
Do-it-yourself (1)
Israel and the West Bank
Cracking down on the settlers (5)
Yemen’s civil war
Raising the stakes
Egypt
A bigger, better Suez Canal (23)
South Africa and its courts
Judges uncowed
Saving the rhino
A dilemma of horns (1)

■Europe
Post-post-nationalist Germany
Strict order (13)
Digital liberty in Germany
Wiki treason (1)
Poland’s Law and Justice party
Less crazy after all these years (6)
Doping in sport
All that glisters (4)
Turkey’s fractious politics
Fighting on two fronts (4)
Migrants in Calais
Learning from the Jungle (4)
Correction: Article of faith

■Britain
Interest rates
The only way is up (6)
The establishment
See no evil (14)
Immigration laws
Crisis mismanagement Britain Only (3)
Royal Bank of Scotland
British taxpayers lose £1 billion Britain Only (3)
Marching in Derry
Where hope and history rhyme Britain Only (1)
The EU referendum of 1975
Well-fed men v mavericks Britain Only
Equine offending
Foals rush in Britain Only (1)
Bagehot
Jeremy Corbyn: closet conservative (24)
Correction: The rotters’ club
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■International
Intellectual property
A question of utility (3)

■Business
The hotel industry
Life is suite
Mobile operating systems
Alpine Android (1)
Bosses’ pay
Who gets what? (4)
Iran’s car industry
Snapping into gear
Business and the law
Taking the gangster rap (1)
Schumpeter
Stuck on the runway

■Finance and economics
Spain’s economy
Back on its feet (3)
Buttonwood
Advancing, not retreating (2)
Puerto Rico’s finances
Hurricane warning (1)
Financial crime
Hard LIBOR (7)
Asian currencies
Plunging like it’s 1998 (6)
Distracted teens
The dreamboat next door (1)
The Federal Reserve
The Tarullo show (2)
Free exchange
Rule it out (1)

■Science and technology
The home of the future
Summon the comfy chairs! (1)
Ebola fever
Cluster bombing
AI and the fine-wine market
Quants and quaffs (15)
Antibiotic resistance
Zoology to the rescue
Precambrian animals
Asexual discrimination (2)

■Science brief
How did biology begin?
Life story (28)

■Books and arts
The Arab autocracies
Burning down their house (2)
Genetics
Breaking the code
New American fiction
Searching and slouching
Myanmar’s political opening
With a cause
Mozambican fiction
Of lions and men
Archaeology in Egypt
What lies beneath?

■Obituary
Obituary: Mullah Omar
In the land of the blind

■Economic and financial indicators
Interactive indicators
Output, prices and jobs
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
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