■The world this week
The world this year (2)
KAL's cartoon (1)

■Leaders
Disney
Star Wars, Disney and myth-making (18)
Spain’s general election
¡Feliz Navidad, España! (62)
South Africa
Try again, the beloved country (72)
Climate change
Hopelessness and determination (7)
Our country of the year
Most favoured nation (12)

■Letters
On climate change, Japan, Augustine, sugar, music, Bernie Sanders
Letters to the editor (2)

■Briefing
Briefing: Disney
The force is strong in this firm (1)

■United States
Capital punishment in America
Who killed the death penalty? (13)
Muslim refugees
Doing just fine (59)
The polls and Donald Trump’s outbursts
Enough said (38)
Lexington
Miss Manners (10)

■The Americas
Legalising pot in Canada
Justin Trudeau and the cannabis factory (14)
West Indian cricket
Gone with the Windies

■Essay
Animal minds
Animals think, therefore…

■Asia
Pakistan confronts extremism
Job half-done (19)
Thailand’s royal pooch
Who are you calling a bitch? (11)
North Korea’s rock chicks
Songs of praise
Mongolia and mining
Back in the saddle?

■China
Internal migration
Shifting barriers (4)
Philanthropy
Panda power (7)

■Middle East and Africa
South Africa’s democracy
The hollow state (8)
Skiing in Iran
Off piste in the Islamic Republic (2)
Saudi Arabia
One (very) small step for a woman (3)

■Europe
Spain’s elections
Clean hands (22)
German immigration
All down the line (9)
European borders
A real border guard at last (3)
French politics
Outflanking Marine (19)
Charlemagne
Down but not out (2)

■Britain
Industrial woes
The makers stumble (1)
Airports
Stuck in a holding pattern (3)
The Thatcher auction
The final sell-off (18)
Organised crime
Bad blood (2)
The fat of the land
Mapping obesity (1)
Britain Only Articles flagged with this icon are printed only in the British edition of The Economist

■International
The Paris agreement on climate change
Green light
Forests and climate change
Hope for the trees (2)

■Christmas Specials
Hitler
What the Führer means for Germans today (9)
Sport and diplomacy
Cuban baseball crisis (2)
The Ottoman caliphate
Straddling two worlds (3)
The Chinese at play
Park life
The future of the past
Out with the old (3)
Agony aunts through the ages
Whatever should I do?
Murder and memory
That dear old oak in Georgia
The Gujarati way
Going global (5)
American cryptology
The Black Chamber
Caterpillar fungus
The emperor’s mighty brother (4)
An 18th-century outrage
Lèse humanité (16)
Preserving manuscripts
Faith’s archivists
Travel in Russia
The gauge of history (2)
Miniature painting
Bosom buddies

■Business
Chinese business and the state
Another turn of the screw (5)
Roll-ups
Serial thrillers (2)
India’s low-cost carriers
Ascending above the turbulence (2)
Schumpeter
Here comes SuperBoss (12)

■Finance and economics
High-yield bonds
Canary or canard? (9)
Ukraine’s prospects
Still on the edge (6)
Festive splurges
Bank run (12)
Buttonwood
Naughty, not nice (1)
Free exchange
Wookienomics (3)

■Science and technology
Human exoskeletons
Full metal jacket (1)
The perils of public office
A merry life but a short one (26)
Materials science
No tangled web (3)
Some cosmic Christmas baubles
Extra-solar planets

■Books and arts
Musical diplomacy
Patriotism on Broadway (21)
Philosophy in practice
The lives of moral saints (7)
The Western mind
Lost soul (7)

■Obituary
Obituary: Brajraj Mahapatra
King of mud, king of rain

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